American  jfletfjotrism's 
ifflotfcer  Cfjurcf) 

: 
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"  #lb  3ofm  Street"  ; 


Origin  of 


Jftrsst  Jffletfjobfet  g»oaetp  in  America 


program 

of  t&e 

g>eben  Saps' 
££>esqui= Centennial  Celebration 

&ctobet  29tf»  to  Jlobember  5tb 

1916 

ano  otber 

Historical  Bata 


Jgp  l&etj.  Xetot*  &.  Street  er,  £.  B.,  pastor 


PRICE  TEN  CENTS 


AN  ASSURED  INCOME  FOR  LIFE 


Though  you  leave  your  wife  and  children  a  million  each,  you  cannot 
be  sure  it  will  last  any  one  of  them  throughout  life. 
They  probably  are  not  trained  in  the  care  and  successful  handling 
of  large  sums. 

THE  PENN  MUTUAL  LIFE  has  a  plan  whereby  you  can  make 
sure  that  your  wife  or  child  will  have  at  least  a  living  income  to  the 
end  of  life. 

Costs  less  than  the  kind  of  life  insurance  you  are  familiar  with. 
Let  us  tell  you  about  it.   You  will  incur  no  obligation  by  inquiring. 

WILLIAM  H.  RYAN,  Manager 
164  Montague  Street,      -  Brooklyn,  New  York 


Established  1861 


BENJ.  D.  BENSON  &  SONS,  Inc. 

MANUFACTURING  STATIONERS,  LITHOGRAPHERS, 
PRINTERS,  AND  ENGRAVERS 
BLANK  BOOK  MAKERS 

11  CLIFF  STREET,  NEW  YORK 

"Former  neighbors  of  the  old 
John  Street  Church  for  thirty  years" 


TELEPHONE  CONNECTIONS 


EDWARD  WECK  &  SON 


148  FULTON  ST.,  N.  Y 
56  E.  23rd  ST.,  N.  Y. 


206  BROADWAY,  N.  Y 


GOOD  CUTLERY 
Retail 

45  NASSAU  ST.,  N.  Y. 
473  FULTON  ST,  BROOKLYN 

Wholesale 

140  S.  DEARBORN  ST,  CHICAGO 
Factory 

135  JOHNSON  ST.,  BROOKLYN  


IEx  IGibrtB 

SEYMOUR  DURST 


PUR  SI* 


THIRTY-FOUR  YEARS  ON  MAIDEN  LANE 

ESTABLISHED  1882 

Gibson's  Restaurant 

51  MAIDEN  LANE 

ALSO  AT 

85  JOHN  STREET 

(2d  FLOOR) 

NO  LIQUORS  SOLD 


You  need  never  be  ashamed  of  serving 

Craig's  Sultan  Coffee 

  OR   

Craig's  Queen's  Delight  Teas 

Fit  for  a  King 


HORATIO  CRAIG  &  CO. 

48  Fulton  Street  and  187  Greenwich  Street 
NEW  YORK 


Telephone  1579  Beekman 

MANHATTAN  STOVE  CO. 

109-111  BEEKMAN  STREET 
New  York  City 

manufacturers  of 
STOVES,  RANGES  AND  FURNACES 

THEODORE  JANTZER  Telephones  1423—1424—1425—5858  Main 


PLYMOUTH  MARKET 

CORNER  HENRY  AND  ORANGE  STREETS     -     BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 
DELICACIES  OF  THE  SEASON 

Telephones  2885—2886  Main 

GEORGE  LOCKITT'S  SONS 

RELIABLE  GROCERIES 

AT  THE  RIGHT  PRICES 
Out  of  Town  Orders  Carefully  and  Promptly  Attended  to 

212-214  FULTON  STREET 
Cor.  Pineapple  Street      ------      BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 


THERMOMETERS  Phone  Beekman  3590 

BAROMETERS 

HYDROMETERS 

Estate  of 

G.  TAGLIABUE 


302  PEARL  STREET 


ESTABLISHED  1M1 


NEW  YORK 


The 


Union  Stove 

(Established  1834) 


Works 


70  Beekman  Street  and  66-68  Gold  Street 
NEW  YORK 


MANUFACTURERS  OF 


ALL  KINDS  OF  COOKING  AND  HEATING  STOVES  FOR  COAL 
AND  WOOD,  GAS  RANGES,  GAS  APPLIANCES,  HOT-AIR  FUR- 
NACES,   LAUNDRY    STOVES,    TANK    HEATERS,    STEAM  AND 
WATER  BOILERS,  ETC.,  ETC. 


E.  P.  REICHHELM  &  CO.,  Inc. 

JEWELERS'  AND  METAL  WORKERS'  SUPPLIES 
Files,  Tools 
ONLY  THE  BEST  ARE  GOOD  ENOUGH 
"AMERICAN-SWISS"  FILES 
Representing 
AMERICAN  GAS  FURNACE  CO. 
Gas  Blast  Furnaces,  Heating  Machines,  Pressure  Blowers,  Fuel  Gas  Plants 

ZEUNER  SAWS 

AMERICAN-SWISS  FILE  &  TOOL  CO. 
24  JOHN  STREET,  NEW  YORK 

Telephone  4937  John 

J.  A.  HEALE  &  CO. 

MANUFACTURERS 

Carbon  Papers  and  Typewriter  Ribbons 
96  JOHN  STREET      -----       NEW  YORK 

TELEPHONE  5476  BEEKMAN 
TELEPHONE  2528  BEEKMAN 

FISCHER  BROS. 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  and  Setters  in 


WINDOW  ^  y  A  RIBBED 

PLATE  |  I  A  FLORENTINE 

MIRRORS  VJJ  DESK  TOP 

WIRED  FOR  FURNITURE 


299  Pearl  Street  Near  Beekman  Street  NEW  YORK 

ESTIMATES  CHEERFULLY  GIVEN 
PHONE  1211  CORTLANDT 

SPITZER'S 

SMART  WAISTS  AND  NOVELTIES 

FOR  WOMEN 

83  NASSAU  STREET 
Bet.  John  and  Fulton  NEW  YORK  CITY 


COMPLIMENTS  OF  OUR  FRIEND 


FRANK  E.  CAMPBELL 

UNDERTAKERS 

AND 


" 


PRIVATE  AMBULANCE  SERVICE 


Broadway,  £2^—2  Buildings-23d  Street,El! 

TELEPHONES: 
Columbus  8201—8202      Chelsea  1324 


Mr.  Campbell  has  the  largest  establishments  in  New  York.  Greater 
facilities  and  equipment.  TWO  FUNERAL  CHURCHES,  non-sectarian 
and  used  without  charge.  Upper  and  lower  centre  of  city.  His  funeral 
chapels,  private  parlor  suites,  separate  rooms,  extensive  show  rooms,  vaults, 
Doctors'  rooms — all  within  fireproofed  buildings — establish  him  as  the  leading 
undertaker.  Campbell  private  ambulances,  invalid  coaches  are  Pierce  Arrow 
make,  limousine  type,  guaranteeing  unprecedented  service  and  priced  moder- 
ately. No  funeral  is  too  small  to  command  personal  care.  No  funeral  too 
extensive.  When  the  best  available  costs  no  more,  always  employ  it.  A  visit 
of  inspection  will  verify  these  claims.    Establishments  open  day  and  night. 


STERLING  PIANOS 

Established  values — one  price,  same  to  everybody — no  secret  commissions 
— easy  terms   for  payment — guarantees  that  protect — and  helpful  service. 

\j  j  ^  r-p  t-v        -r     »   p        I*    >'ou   haven't   a   Yictrola,   a   small   outlay  of 
J^V^j       Ja.  v>/ JL_//\  O     money    will   put   one   in   your   home,   and   with  it* 
endless  pleasure.     Why  wait? 

THE  STERLING  PIANO  CO.,  Sterling  Building 
MANUFACTURERS  518-520  Fulton  St.,  Brooklyn,  New  York 

'Phone  5600  Main  connects  all  departments 


Original  Jofm  Street  Cftop  Houfie 

^ohn  Brake,  proprietor 

42  3fofjn  Street  i^eto  gork 


Telephone  4215  Cortlandt  Established  1839 

CREAM  JAVA  COFFEE  MILLS 

JAS.  W.  HAMBLET 

COFFEES 

35  AXD  37  VESEY  STREET        -  NEW  YORK 


Phone  1139  John  Custom  House  License  197 

STRYKER'S  TRANSFER 

Cedar  and  PeArL  Streets 

NEW  YORK 

TRUCK  AND  EXPkESS  SERVICE 

Export  Shipments  for  Brooklyn  Entire  Water  Front  Daily 


lOOjYears  of  Commercial  Banking 
THE 


of  the 
City  of  New  York 

Capital  and  Surplus ...  .$5,000,000 
Resources   $80,000,000 


Charter  Member  N.  Y .  Clearing  House 
Member  Federal  Reserve  Bank 
United  States  Depository 

192  BROADWAY 
Cor.  John  St. 

BRANCHES 

Greenwich  and  Warren  Sts'. 
Bowery  and  Grand  St. 
Fifth  Avenue  and  14th  St. 
Ninth  Avenue  and  14th  St. 
Fifth  Avenue  and  20th  St.  ' 
2  West  33rd  St. 
57th  St.  and  Third  Ave. 
Broadway  and  61st  St. 
8  6th  St.  at  Second  Ave. 
Broadway  and  104th  St. 
Lenox  Ave.  and  116th  St. 
125th  St.  and  Lexing-ton  Ave. 

We  Invite  Your  Account 


EVERY  FACE 

is  improved  by  good  teeth.  Without  good  teeth  even  a  beautiful  face  is  not 
pleasing  to  the  eye.  With  perfect  teeth  even  a  plain  face  is  charming.  Let 
us  improve  your  teeth — make  them  more  beautiful,  more  'perfect.  Our  dental 
work  is  of  the  highest  merit. 

DR.  L.  J.  HOYT,  DENTIST 

455    FULTON     STREET  . 

Near  Jay  or  Smith  Streets 

Do  Not  Mistake  the  Number 
Beautiful  artificial  gum  sets  of  teeth,  $5-$7-$l 0,  extracting  included.     Partial  sets, 
$3  upward.    Teeth  extracted  without  pain.    Teeth  filled,  $1  up. 


PHONE  MAIN    442  ESTABLISHED  1855 

PHONE  MAIN  3791 

WEBER  &  CO. 

Formerly  ANDERSON 

CATERERS,  BAKERS  AND  CONFECTIONERS 

284  Fulton  Street 
Near  Clinton  Street  BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 

China,  Silver,  Camp  Chairs  and  Tables  to  Hire 


PHONE  BEEKMAN  3259 

SALZER  &  CO. 

Hand  Made,  Printed,  Lithographed 

SHOW  CARDS,  SIGNS 

The  Home  of  Original  Display  Novelties 

100  Nassau  Street       ------       New  York 


ESTABLISHED  1876 

ESTEY  WIRE  WORKS  COMPANY 

MANUFACTURERS  OF 

WIRE  WORK       WIRE  CLOTH       WIRE  GOODS 

IN  BRASS.  COPPER  and  STEEL 
*    SAND,  COAL,  SPARK  and  MINING  SCREENS.    WIRE  LATHING 
GALVANIZED  WIRE.   WINDOW  PROTECTORS 

SPECIAL  WIRE  GOODS  TO  ORDER 

34  Cliff  Street  -       -  New  York  City 

t  e lep hone  co n  n  k(  t i o n 


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Columbus  Ave  &  67  -  St. 

NEW  YORK 

66  STREET  SUBWAY  STATION 
66  STREET  ELEVATED  EXPRESS  STATION 

'yrfieir- 'Sroadwm  anc/Oolumbus  Hleet 


c 


OLUMBIA 
areful 


S 


TORAGE 
ervice 


WAREHOUSES 
arranted 


Estimates  Furnished  for  Storage 
Boxing,  Packing  and  Shipping 
to  All  Parts  of  the  World 


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ESTABLISHED  53  YEARS 

GARDNER  &  CO. 

F.  W.  TAYLOR 

PHOTOGRAPHERS 

276-278  FULTON  STREET,  BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 

TWO  BLOCKS  BELOW  BOROUGH  HALL 

Special  Inducements  for  the  Holidays 
NO  BRANCH  STUDIO 


Established  1860  Telephone  Connection 

"THE  FIRM  WHO  BUILT  OUR  ORGAN" 

REUBEN  MIDMER  &  SON 

BUILDERS  OF 

CHURCH  and  CHAPEL  ORGANS 

Electric  and  Tubular  Pneumatic  Organs 

GERMANIA  SAVINGS  BANK  BUILDING 
375-379  FULTOX  STREET 

BROOKLYN— NEW  YORK 


The  following  pages  deal  with  the  John  Street  Methodist  Society  prior  and 
up  to  the  time  of  the  dedication  of  the  Chapel  (known  in  that  period  as  Wesley 
Chapel)  which  occurred  on  October  30,  1768. 

From  the  first  word  to  the  last  the  view  is  taken  that  Philip  Embury  and 
the  members  of  his  Class,  whose  names  are  given,  and  who  arrived  together  in 
New  York,  August  10,  1760,  were  Methodists  of  the  Church  of  England,  as  were 
practically  all  the  Methodists  in  England  and  Ireland  prior  to  that  period  and 
for  many  years  later.  And  that  the  Methodist  activities  of  these  persons,  and 
of  others  who  later  participated  in  their  Methodist  fellowship,  were  consciously 
and  purposely  directed  with  respect  to  their  relation  to  the  Church  of  England, 
in  accord  with  Mr.  Wesley's  interpretation  of  that  relation. 

In  a  surviving  document  relating  to  these  persons,  dated  February  1, 
1763,  it  will  appear  in  the  following  pages  that  over  their  own  signatures  they 
affirmed  that  they  were  "all  of  the  Established  Church  of  England." 

In  another  surviving  document,  written  in  1767,  an  imprint  of  which  appears 
on  one  of  the  following  pages,  these  persons  affirmed,  respecting  their  Methodist 
activities,  that  they  were  "under  the  direction  of  the  Rev.  John  Wesley." 

Based  on  these  surviving  documentary  affirmations,  supported  and  illus- 
trated by  many  corroborating  circumstantial  facts,  some  of  which  are  cited  in 
the  following  pages,  it  is  believed  that  the  inferences  deduced  therefrom  are 
fully  warranted. 

If  it  be  true  of  the  early  days,  covered  by  the  following  pages,  that  Metho- 
dism in  one  or  two  places  took  on  an  independent  and  sectarian  form  it  was  not 
true  of  New  York.  Nor  was  it  true  of  a  majority  of  other  places.  Therefore, 
any  manner  of  historic  approach  proceeding  on  the  assumption  that  early  Metho- 
dism in  New  York  was  a  movement  outside  and  independent  of  the  Church  of 
England  is  untrue  to  the  facts  and,  consequently,  leads  to  false  inferences  respect- 
ing the  conscious  motives,  attitudes  and  aims  of  the  persons  concerned  therein. 


PRESENT  CHURCH 

John  Street  Trust  Fund  Society's 
building  to  the  left 


F.  W.  DEVOE  &  C.  T.  RAYNOLDS  CO. 

Founded  1754 
The  First  American  Paint  Makers 


162  Years  Making  Good  Paint 


1754  1916 

Corner  Water  and  Corner  Fulton  and 

Fletcher  Streets  William  Streets 

NEW  YORK 


CHARTERED  1866 

Brooklyn  Trust  Company 

MEMBER  NEW  YORK  CLEARING  HOUSE  ASSOCIATION 
Main  Office:    177-179  Montague  Street 
Branch  :    Bedford  Avenue  and  Fulton  Street 
Manhattan  Office:    Corner  Wall  Street  and  Broadway 
Capital,  Surplus  and  Profits        -  $5,490,000 

Departments:    BANKING,   TRUST,    FOREIGN  EXCHANGE 

Edwin  P.  Maynard,  President 

David  H.  Lanman,  Yice-Pres.  Horace  \V.   Farrell,  Asst.  Seey. 

Frank  J,  W.  Diller.  Yice-Pres.  Herbert  U.  Silleck,  Asst.  Secy. 

Willis  McDonald,  Jr.,  Yice-Pres.  Austin  W.  Penchoen,  Asst.  Secy. 

Frederick  T.  Aldridge.  Vice-Pres.  Gilbert  H.  Thirkield,  Asst.  Secy. 

Willard  P.  Schenck,  Secretary  Frederick  B.  Lindsay,  Asst.  Secy. 


CHARTERED  1872 

BROOKLYN  CITY  SAFE  DEPOSIT  CO. 

177-179  MONTAGUE  STREET 
INDIVIDUAL  SAFES  SILVER   AND   STORAGE  VAULTS 

David    H.    Lanman,    President  G-eorc.e    W.    Chauncey,  Yice-President 

Frank  ().  Edoerton,  Secretary 


ONE 


HUNDRED  AND  FIFTY  YEARS 


Two  Sundays 


SEVEN  DAYS 
SESQ  UI-  CENTENNIAL 
CELEBRATION 
SERVICES 


Five  Week-Days 


OF  THE 


01* 


3 ofm  Street  Jttettjobtet 
Cptecopal  Cfjurcf) 


NEW  YORK 


(First  Methodist  Society  in  America) 


1766-1916 


TO  BEGIN  SUNDAY,  OCTOBER  29th,  1916 


Sermons  and  Fraternal  Addresses  by  the  Following  Distinguished  Persons 


Bishop  Samuel  D wight  Chown,  Canada 

Bishop  David  H.  Greer,  New  York 

Bishop  Luther  B.  Wilson,  New  York 

Bishop  Eugene  R.  Hendrix,  Kansas  City 

Bishop  Earl  Cranston,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Bishop  John  W.  Hamilton,  Washington,  D.  C 

Bishop  William  F.  McDowell,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Rev.  S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D.,  Brooklyn 

Rev.  Newell  Dwight  Hillis,  D.D.,  Brooklyn 

Rev.  William  V.  Kelley,  D.D.,  New  York 

Rev.  David  G.  Downey,  D.D.,  New  York. 

Rev.  David  James  Burrell,  D.  D.,  New  York. 

Rev.  F.  Watson  Hannan,  D.  D.,  Madison,  New  Jersey. 

Dr.  Henry  K.  Carroll,  Washington,  D.  C. 


In  filial  and  greatful  recognition  of  the  material  claims  of  this  Mother  Church 
you  are  most  cordially  invited  and  urged  to  personally  participate  in  her  Sesqui- 
Centennial  Celebration.  She  wishes  your  presence,  the  pleasure  of  your  recog- 
nition, the  gratification  of  your  veneration  and  she,  in  return,  pledges  you  her 
benediction.    She  awaits  your  coming. 

It  will  occur  to  you  that  during  the  past  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  five  gener- 
ations of  the  descendants  of  this  Mother  Church  have  "crossed  the  flood,"  and 
that  by  your  attendance  you  will  be  permitted  the  joy  of  standing  in  their  invisi- 
ble presence  as  you  join  the  congregation  in  singing, 


The  occasion  ought  to  be,  and  will  be,  one  of  joyous  acclaim,  renewals  of  loyalty, 
and  happy  memory! 

All  persons  receiving  this  Program  are  kindly  requested  to  make  known  to  others 
its  contents  and  extend  to  them  the  above  invitation. 


Rev.  Lewis  R.  Streeter,  D.D.,  Pastor. 


INVITATION 


Faith  of  our  fathers!  Holy  faith! 
We  will  be  true  to  Thee  till  death! 


1861 


FIRST  IN  THE  WORLD 
55  Yfars 


1916 


The  Safe  Deposit  Com  pany  of  New  York 

SINGER  BUILDING 

First  in  the  World— Chartered  1861 

First  in  Experience — ( )ver  50  Years 

First  in  Construction — New  Vaults 

First  in  Equipment — Every  Convenience 

First  in  Ventilation — Cool,  Pure  Air 

WE  INVITE  YOUR  INSPECTION 

TELEPHONE  7601  CORTLANDT  FOR  BOOKLET 


WE  ARE  NOT  CONNECTED  WITH  THE 
STEPHEN    MERRITT    B.  &  C.  CO. 


STEPHEN  MERRITT 

UNDERTAKERS 

Main  Office  and  Chapels 
223  Eighth  Avenue.  Near  21st  Street 

S.  L.  Buckingham,  Mgr. 
Telephone,  1200  Chelsea 

Harlem  Establishment,    -    304  West  126th  Street 
11.  S.  Wynkoop,  Mgr. 
Rev.  Stephen  Merritt  Telephone,  5700  Morningside 

No  Connection  With  Any  Other  Company  or  Concern 

IF  YOU  WANT  THE  REV.  STEPHEN  MERRITT,  YOU  MUST  CALL 
ABOVE  OFFICE,  AND  NO  OTHER 


Rev.  Luther  B.  Wilson,  D.D.,  LL.D., 

RESIDENT  BISHOP 


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EVERYTHING  FOR  MEN'S  WEAR 


A.  RAYMOND  &  CO. 

CLOTHIERS  and  OUTFITTERS 
COR.  NASSAU  and  FULTON  STREETS 

60  Years  on  the  Same  Spot,  and  Still  There 
JOHN  M.  RAYMOND,  Prop. 


Beekman  4915—4916 

JORDAN  BROS.,  Inc. 

General  Electrical 
Contractors 

74  BEEKMAN  STREET 
NEW  YORK  CITY 


(Mtctarp  of  Jofm  Street  Cfjurcf) 


TRUSTEES 
JAMES  W.  PEARSALL 
JAMES  S.  COWARD 
JOHN  W.  CRAWFORD 
EDGAR  W.  ROGERS 
WILLIAM  KENNEDY 
CARL  H.  FOWLER 
WILLIAM  J.  STITT 
WILLIAM  H.  VAN  BENSCHOTEN 
DR.  HENRY  K.  CARROLL 


THOMAS  C.  MILLERICK 
WILLIAM  H.  TUTTLE 
JAMES  BARR 
GEORGE  GILPEN 
FRED  W.  RITZ 
ANDREW  M.  CHILD,  Jr. 


SUNDAY  SCHOOL 
Superintendent:    LEWIS  L.  DAVIS 
Assistant  Supt:    ANDREW  M.  CHILD,  Jr. 
Secretary:    HARRY  A.  TUBBS 
Treasurer:    G.  ARCHER  CRANE 


EPWORTH  LEAGUE 
President:    THOMAS  F.  CONROY 
First  Vice  Pres.:    MISS  MILDRED  R. 

STREETER 
Second  Vice  Pres.:  WILLIAM  H.  TUTTLE 
Third  Vice  Pres.:  MISS  ETTA  C.  BORG- 

STROM 

Fourth  Vice  Pres.:  FRED  W.  RITZ 
Secretary:    JAMES  HASHAM 
Treasurer:    MISS  MABLE  GUEST 
Pianist:    MISS  IRENE  NEWMAN 

FINANCIAL  SECY  OFFICIAL  BOARD 
FRED  W.  RITZ 


MINISTERS 

REV.  LUTHER  B.  WILSON,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

resident  bishop 

REV.  FRANCIS  B.  UPHAM,  D.D. 

district  superintendent 

REV.  LEWIS  R.  STREETER,  D.D. 

PREACHER  IN  CHARGE 


LOCAL  PREACHERS 

THOMAS  KNOX 
ANDREW  M.  CHILD,  Sr. 
JAMES  C.  BEACH,  M.D. 

CLASS  LEADER 
CHARLES  H.  APPLEGATE 

LADIES'  AID  SOCIETY 

President:    MRS.  M.  B.  ROSS 
Vice  Pres.:  MRS.  C.  JENSEN 
Secretary:    MRS.  FRED  O.  DREW 
Treasurer:    MRS.  E.  BORGSTROM 

JUNIOR  LEAGUE 

Supt:    MISS  L.  RUTH  OVERTON 

DEACONESS 
MISS  L.  RUTH  OVERTON 

TREASURER  OFFICIAL  BOARD 

GEORGE  de  BEAUCHAMP 


STEWARDS 

FRED  O.  DREW 
GEORGE  de  BEAUCHAMP 
GEORGE  DINGWELL 
MISS  HATTIE  E.  MOREHOUSE 
MISS  ETTA  C.  BORGSTROM 
ARTHUR  M.  LOCK  WOOD 
ALFRED  H.  SCHMINKE 


SEXTON 
MR.  JOSEPH  GUEST 


THE   KAISER   SHOPS,  Inc. 

WOMEN'S  WEAR  SPECIALTIES 

WAISTS  UNDERWEAR 

NECKWEAR  CORSETS 

HOSIERY  GLOVES 

THE  TWO  MOST  ACCESSIBLE  LADIES '  SHOPS  IN  THE  DOWNTOWN  DISTRICT 

114  NASSAU  STREET  50  BROADWAY 

MORTON  BUILDING  STANDARD  ARCADE 


STOVE  MANUFACTURERS  REPAIR 
ASSOCIATION 

Q  ;r  0  A  10  S 

230  WATER  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


Tel.  1269  Beekman  Established  20  Years 

De  Grove,  Inc. 

formerly 

REID  COMPANY 

SHOE  REPAIRERS 
190  William  Street     .-  NEW  YORK 

Shoes  Rebuilt,  Shoes  Rewelted,  Shoes  Lengthened,  Shoes  Dyed, 
Shoes  Rebottomed,  New  Heels  (leather  or  wood);  New  Counter 
Linings,   New   Toe   Caps,   New   Button    Flys,    New  Counters 
Golf  and  Athletic  Shoes  a  Specialty 


GOODS  CALLED  FOR  AND  DELIVERED 


REV.  LEWIS  R.  STREETER,  D.D. 
PASTOR 


OUR  GIFT  SHOP 


Odd  and  useful  assortment  of  "Gift  Things  Unusual"  not  to  be 
found  elsewhere. 

Those  who  appreciate  distinctive  individual  gifts  of  beauty  and 
utility  will  do  well  to  examine  our  unusual  collection  when  such 
objects  are  needed  for  any  occasion. 

Original  lamps  electrically  fitted,  special  pottery,  Chinese,  Hawthorn, 
and  other  rare  bases,  with  shades  especially  made  in  color  to 
harmonize. 

Tea  carts,  book  ends,  clocks,  smoking  stands,  magazine  stands, 
ferneries,  safe  cabinets,  pottery,  mirrors,  bud  vases,  trays. 

Choicest  and  best  selected  display  of  Christmas  cards,  boxes,  calen- 
dars and  novelties. 


The  Store  of  Service" 


OLIVER  A.  OLSON  COMPANY 
Broadway  at  79th  Street 
NEW  YORK 


BE  SURE  IT  IS 
A  "LE  BIHAN" 


Umbrellas  for  Xmas  Gifts, 
in  wonderful  variety 

Folding  Umbrellas 

Walking-Sticks 


Le  Bihan, 


Inc. 


178  Fulton  St.,  bet.  Broadway  and  Church  St. 


BRANCH:  HUDSON  TERMINAL  BUILDING,  FULTON  ST.  ENTRANCE 


Regular  i>ours;  of  H>erutce* 


CHURCH  SUNDAY  SCHOOL 

SUNDAY  MORNING,  11:00  MORNING,  9:30 

SUNDAY  EVENING,  8:00  EPWORTH  LEAGUE 

WEDNESDAY  EVENING,  8  :00  SUNDAY  EVENING,  7:00 


Philip  Embury  Class  Meeting 

Sunday  Morning,  9:30. 

John  Street  Business  Men's  Noon-day  Prayer  Meeting 
From  12  to  1  Every  Week-day,  Excepting  Legal  Holidays. 


H>peauerg  Cngageti  for  tfje  i§>es;(jut= 
Centennial  H>erutces: 

It  should  be  noted  as  an  impressive  exhibit  that  five  of  the  speakers  announced 
conspicuously  represent  other  Communions.  This  fraternal  and  beautiful 
recognition  of  the  Sesqui-Centennial  of  American  Methodism's  Mother  Church 
significantly  betokens  a  growing  spirit  of  Christian  unity,  regardless  of  denomi- 
national distinctions. 


ASSOCIATE  SUPPORTERS  OF  THE  MOTHER  CHURCH 

All  persons  not  members  of  John  Street  Church  who  subscribe  one  dollar  or  more 
per  year  are  enrolled  as  "Associate  Supporters  of  the  Mother  Church."  These 
subscriptions  when  paid  are  duly  acknowledged  by  the  Pastor  or  the  Financial 
Secretary. 


DEPENDABLE  MERCHANDISE 
AT  NUTTING'S  CORNER 


Quality,  rather  than  price,  should  govern  your  choice  this  season. 
The  advance  in  the  cost  of  all  kinds  of  wearing  apparel  behooves 
the  prudent  buyer  to  depend  on  the  reliability  of  the  store  he 
patronizes. 

For  37  years  we  have  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  the  people  of 
Brooklyn.    Are  YOU  a  customer  of  ours? 


Clothiers  for  Men,  Young  Men  and  Boys,  Women  and  Misses 
FULTON  AND  SMITH  STREETS,  BROOKLYN 


A.  J.  NUTTING  &  CO.,  Inc. 


HAMILTON  TRUST  COMPANY 


189  and  191  MONTAGUE  STREET 


CAPITAL,  SURPLUS  AND  PROFITS,  $1,616,000 


Allows  Interest  on  Accounts  Subject  to  Check 
SPECIAL  RATES  ON  TIME  DEPOSITS 


Acts  as  Executor  and  Trustee 


OFFICERS 


Willard  E.  Edmister,  President 
William  Berri,  1st  Vice-Pres. 
Walter  C.  Humstone,  2d  Vice-Pres. 


Geo.  Hadden,  3d  Vice-Pres.  and  Sec. 
Robert  S.  Girling,  Asst.  Sec. 
Joseph  C.  Hecker,  Jr.,  Asst.  Sec. 


BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 


John  C.  McGuire 
Henry  N.  Whitney 
John  R.  Hegeman 


John  N.  Partridge 
Ezra  D.  Bushnell 


William  Berri 
Charles  Cooper 


Walter  C.  Humstone 


David  F.  Butcher 


Frederick  H.  Pouch 
Eversley  Childs 


Frederick  H.  Ecker 
Willard  E.  Edmister 
Julius  B.  Davenport 


Frank  Sullivan  Smith 
George  Hadden 


Charles  E.  Keator 
John  Anderson 
Edwin  A.  Ames 
Frederick  H.  Webster 
Daniel  J.  Creem 
H.  C.  Folger 
Charles  J.  McDermott 


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program 


SUNDAY  MORNING 

OCTOBER  29TH 

9:30-LOVE  FEAST 
Conducted  by  Rev.  Charles  R.  Barnes,  D.D. 

1  his  honored  Minister  is  a  Veteran  of  the  Newark  Conference,  and 
in  his  youth  was  a  member  of  the  John  Street  Sunday  School. 

On  Anniversary  Sunday,  the  Love  Feast  takes  the  place  of  the  John  Street 
Sunday  Morning  Philip  Embury  Class-Meeting,  the  oldest  Class-Meeting  in 
America.    Present  Leader,  Charles  H.  Applegate. 


10:45-Preaching  Service. 

Prayer  by  Rev.  Arthur  B.  Sanford,  D.D.,  a  former  Pastor. 


SERMON 

By  Bishop  Samuel  Dwight  Chown,  General  Superintendent  of  the  Methodist 
Church  in  Canada. 

Bishop  Chown's  high  office  gives  him  a  large  place  in  the  great 
Dominion  within  which  he  exercises  its  functions.  Since  the  war 
began  the  Military  Department  of  the  Canadian  Government  con- 
ferred upon  him  the  honorary  status  of  a  Colonel  of  his  Majesty's 
forces  in  Canada.  He  has  two  sons  in  the  Canadian  armies  at  the 
front.  It  may  be  expected  his  addresses  will  reflect  something  of 
the  tragic  experiences  through  which  the  Canadian  people  are 
passing,  incident  to  their  part  in  the  great  war. 


It  may  also  be  observed  that  the  participation  of  Bishop  Chown  in  the  John 
Street  Sesqui-Centennial  Services  is  particularly  opportune,  for  the  reason  that 
several  of  the  first  members  of  the  John  Street  Society  later  removed  to  Canada, 
where  they  joined  others  in  originating  Methodist  Societies  in  that  territory  of 
the  New  World. 


N.  B.  For  a  charge  of  twenty-five  cents  per  meal,  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society  of  John  Street 
Church  will  serve  luncheon  and  supper  in  the  lecture  room  to  all  who  wish  to  remain 
for  the  afternoon  and  evening  services  of  Sunday,  October  the  29th. 


PHONE  4692  BRYANT 


"CARPETS  CLEANED  CLEAN" 

JORDAN'S 

NEW  YORK  CARPET  CLEANING  WORKS 
437-439  West  45th  Street 

Rug  Cleansing  and  Repairing 


OLDEST— LARGEST— MOST  MODERN 


Blended  and  Roasted  By 

PRIVATE  ESTATE  COFFEE  CO. 

21-25  FULTON  STREET,  NEW  YORK  CITY 


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SUNDAY  AFTERNOON 
OCTOBER  29TH 

PLATFORM  MEETING. 

3:00— James  W.  Pearsall,  Esq.,  Presiding,  President  John  Street  Boark  of  Trustees. 
Prayer  by  Allan  MacRossie,  District  Superintendent,  New  York  District. 

ADDRESSES 

The  Contribution  of  Methodism  To  Church  Unity— Rev.  S.  Parkes  Cad- 
man,  D.D.,  Pastor  Central  Congregational  Church,  Brooklyn. 

Fraternal  Greetings — Bishop  David  H.  Greer,  Bishop  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Diocese,  New  York. 

Greetings  From  Canadian  Methodism — Bishop  Samuel  Dwight  Chown, 
General  Superintendent  of  the  Methodist  Church  in  Canada. 

Response — Rev.  William  V.  Kelley,  D.D.,  New  York,  Editor  Methodist  Review. 

SUNDAY  EVENING 

OCTOBER  29TH 

6:45 — Prayer  and  Testimony  Service 
Conducted  by  James  S.  Coward,  Esq., — For  many  years  an  honored  member 
of  the  John  Street  Board  of  Trustees. 

8:00 — Preaching  Service 
Prayer  by  Rev.  Wilbert  C.  Blakeman,  D.D.,  a  former  Pastor. 

SERMON 

By  Bishop  Samuel   Dwight  Chown 

Delegations  From  the  Epworth  League  Chapters  of  Greater  New  York  are  especially 
invited  to  both  of  the  evening  services. 

WEEK  DAY  CELEBRATION  SERVICES 
OCTOBER  30TH  TO  NOVEMBER  3RD 
To  be  held  in  the  Auditorium  of  the  Church 

Leader  of  singing  at  the  Week-Day  Services,  Rev.  William  H.  Hoople,  D.D. 

Monday,  Oct.  30,  1  P.M.  Sermon  — F.  Watson  Hannan,  D.D.  Subject: 
What  is  Wrong  with  the  World? 

Tuesday,  Oct.  31,  1  P.  M.,  Address  — Rev.  David  James  Burrell,  Pastor  Mar- 
ble Collegiate  Church,  New  York,  Subject:  The  Old  Gospel,  According 
to  Charles  Wesley,  the  Epworth  Poet  and  Singer. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  1,  1  P.  M.  Address — Rev.  S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D., 
Subject:    John  Wesley,  An  Apostle  of  the  Eighteenth  Century. 

Thursday,  Nov.  2,  1  P.  M.  Sermon — Bishop  William  F.  McDowell,  Resident 
Bishop,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Friday,  Nov.  3,  1  P.  M.,  Address— Rev.  Newell  Dwight  Hillis,  D.D.,  Pastor 
Plymouth  Church,  Brooklyn,  Subject:  What  is  the  Matter  with  the 
United  States  ? 


H.  J.  BRIDGER 

C.  H.  WILLIAMS,  Successor 


Diamonds,  Watches  and  Fine  Jewelry 
Expert  Watch  and  Jezvelry  Repairing 

472  FULTON  STREET 

Cor.  Elm  Place.    Over  Loft's  Candy  Store 
Third  Floor,  Take  Elevator 

Phone  Main  4326  BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 


The  Peoples  Trust  Company 

Incorporated  1899 
181-183  MONTAGUE  STREET,  BROOKLYN 

BRANCHES  AT 

NOSTRAND  AVENUE,  CORNER  HERKIMER  STREET 
CLINTON  AVENUE,  CORNER  MYRTLE  AVENUE 
FIFTH  AVENUE,  CORNER  FIFTY-FOURTH  STREET 
43   FLATBUSH   AVENUE,    NEAR   FULTON  STREET 

CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS,  $2,600,000.00 

Member  of  the  New  York  Clearing  House 

To  serve  depositors  well  is  the  aim  of  this  institution.  Your  needs  w*ill 
be  met  promptly  and  accurately,  and  every  service  in  keeping  with  sound 
banking  will  be  promptly  and  courteously  rendered. 

Transact  your  banking  either  at  our  main  office  or  at  any  of  our  four 
branches. 

INTEREST  ALLOWED  ON  DEPOSITS 


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SUNDAY,  NOVEMBER  5TH 
MORNING 

9:30 — Philip  Embury  Class  Meeting 
9:45— Sunday  School  Session. 
10:45 — Preaching  Service. 
Prayer  by  Bishop  Joseph  C.  Hartzell. 

SERMON 

By  Bishop  Eugene  R.  Hendrix,  Kansas  City,  Senior  Bishop,  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South. 


SUNDAY  AFTERNOON 

NOVEMBER  5TH 

3:00,— Unification  Service. 
Bishop  Luther  E.  Wilson,  Resident  Bishop,  New  York,  Presiding. 

Subject:    Proposed  Unification  of  the  American  Methodist  Bodies. 

Introductory  Address — Bishop  Luther  B.  Wilson. 
Unification  Address — Bishop  Eugene  R.  Hendrix. 
Response — Bishop  Earl  Cranston. 
Response — Bishop  John  W.  Hamilton. 

The  Future  of  Old  John  Street— Rev.  David  G.  Downey,  D.D.,  Book  Editor, 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


BUSINESS  MEN'S  NOON-DAY  MEETING 

In  the  matter  of  its  every-day-in-the-year  service  for  the  Kingdom,  John  Street 
Church  is  almost  in  a  class  by  itself.  For  more  than  thirty  years  every  week- 
day in  the  year,  excepting  legal  holidays,  a  noon-day  service  has  been  held  in  the 
lecture-room  of  the  church.  The  attendance  not  unfrequently  crowds  the 
lecture  room  to  its  capacity,  and  the  record  of  the  good  resulting  from  this 
Meeting  would  make  up  a  story  of  fascinating  interest. 


ROOFS  REPAIRED 

AND  KEPT  SO  BY  THE  YEAR  UNDER  GUARANTEE 

TIN  ROOFS 

REPAIRED  AND  PAINTED 

Slate,  Tile.  Plastic  Slate  and   Gravel   Roofs  Repaired  When 
Condition  Will  Justify 
LEADERS,   GUTTERS.    SKYLIGHTS    REPAIRED   OR  REPLACED 

Fire  Escapes  and  Iron  Work  Cleaned  and  Painted 

We  have  roofs  under  our  guarantee  in  Jersey  City^  Mt.  Vernon, 
Far  Rockaway,  Staten  Island 
SKILLED    LABOR  AVERAGE  PRICES 

ESTIMATES  CHEERFULLY  FURNISHED 


NEW  YORK  ROOF  REPAIRING  CO. 

ESTABLISHED  1899 

100  WILLIAM  ST.,  NEW  YORK  CITY 

L.  C.  BROWN.  Manager  Telephone:    JOHN  3151 


Richard  J.  Delaney 


UNDERTAKER 


Oilice,  69  8th  Ave.,  New  York 

Near  14th  Street       Phones,  Chelsea  3240, 3241 


Calls  Attended  to  at  Any  Distance 
by  Automobile. 

First  Class  Funeral  Parlors 


Origin  of  ftfje  f  ofm  Street  Jttetfjotrtet 
g>octetj>,  Jleto  #orfc 


This  historic  society,  known  as  the  First  Methodist  Society  in  America, 
had  its  beginnings  in  the  evangelistic  activities  of  a  group  of  twelve  Irish  Metho- 
dists, who  embarked  from  Limerick  together  and  arrived  in  New  York,  August  10, 
1760.  In  their  native  village,  Ballingran,  Ireland,  they  had  been  united  in  the 
fellowship  of  a  Methodist  Class,  and  in  the  same  and  adjoining  villages,  they  had 
several  times  heard  Mr.  Wesley  preach.  One  of  their  number,  Philip  Embury, 
was  their  class  leader,  who  also  had  been  licensed  by  Mr.  Wesley  as  a  lay  preacher, 
and  for  six  years  had  exercised  his  preaching  gifts  in  his  native  land. 


Though  Methodists,  they  were,  according  to  documentary  testimony  given 
by  them  three  years  after  their  arrival  in  New  York,  communicants  of  the  Church 
of  England,  which  means  that  in  the  Church  of  England  they  had  received  the 
rites  of  baptism  and  confirmation.  Thus  they  were  Methodist  communicants 
within  the  Church  of  England.  Their  designation  as  Methodists  they  had  ac- 
quired by  reason  of  their  adherence  to  Mr.  Wesley's  teachings,  but  this  had  in 
no  degree  or  manner  separated  them  from  the  Church  of  England  or  vitiated  their 
title  to  its  privileges. 

It  should,  therefore,  be  borne  in  mind  that  this  group  of  twelve  Irish  Metho- 
dists were  Methodists  not  outside  of  the  Church  of  England,  but  within  that 
Church;  and  that  the  same  was  true  of  practically  all  the  Methodists  in  England 
and  Ireland  during  those  early  years,  and  likewise  for  a  period  in  America.  .The 


THE  FIRST  MEMBERS 


September  10, 1709. 


WERE  METHODIST  COMMUNICANTS  OF  THE 
CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND 


MONTGOMERY  &  CO.,  Inc. 

GEO.  T.  MONTGOMERY,  President 

TOOLS  and  SUPPLIES 

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  GROBET  FILES 

We  Make  a  Specialty  of  Factory,  Shop,  Mill,  Electric  and 
Steam  Railroad  Supplies 

contractors'  equipments  exporting  tools  and  machinery 

105-107  Fulton  Street  62  Ann  Street 

NEW  YORK 


'D=   = 

Telephone  2075  Beekman 

T.  G.  SELLEW 

ROLL  TOP  DESKS 

BOOK-KEEPERS'  AND  FLAT-TOP  DESKS,  CHATRS, 
COUCHES,  TABLES 

OFFICE  FURNITURE  OF  EVERY  DESCRIPTION 

111  FULTON  STREET 
NEW  YORK 

Factory:   North  3d  Street,  Near  Bloom  field  Avenue,  Newark,  N.  J. 


separation  of  the  Methodists  from  the  Church  of  England,  which  occurred  later, 
resulted  from  causes  and  conditions  that  did  not  obtain  in  the  early  period  here 
under  review. 

BECAME  COMMUNICANTS  OF  TRINITY  CHURCH,  NEW  YORK 

In  keeping  with  the  order  as  then  existing  this  group  of  Methodists,  upon 
their  arrival  in  New  York,  naturally  sought  affiliation  with  a  Christian  body 
representing  the  Church  of  England,  and  this  they  found  in  Trinity  Church,  now 
commonly  known  as  "Old  Trinity."  Making  this  choice  meant  to'  them  a 
transfer  of  their  communicant  relations,  including  their  Methodist  relations, 
from  the  Church  of  England  in  Ireland  to  the  Church  of  England  in  America. 
At  the  altars  of  Trinity  Church  they  waited  upon  the  ministry  of  the  Word  and 
partook  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  just  as  they  had  done  in  the  Old  World  and,  mean- 
while, held  fast  to  their  Methodist  convictions  respecting  doctrine,  conduct, 
experience  and  fellowship. 

And  it  may  be  taken  for  granted  that  within  the  circle  of  Trinity  Church, 
as  well  as  outside  of  it,  they  made  known  the  fact  that  they  were  adherents  of 
Mr.  Wesley's  teachings,  teachings  already  well  known  to  the  clergy  of  that 
Church;  and  it  may  also  be  taken  for  granted  that  they  sought  to  make  their 
new  social  acquaintances,  within  and  without  that  Church,  familiar  with  their 
own  religious  experiences,  resulting  from  their  acceptance  of  Mr.  Wesley's 
teachings. 

Nor  is  it"  known  that  one  word  was  ever  written  or  spoken  representing  that 
the  professions  and  activities  of  the  Irish  Methodists  were  offensive  to  a  single 
soul  in  Trinity  Church.  On  the  contrary  all  the  attendant  circumstances,  which 
later  appeared  in  documentary  evidence,  conspire  to  convincingly  show  that  by 
their  sincerity  and  worthy  Christian  behavior,  the  twelve  Irish  Methodists  won 
for  themselves  high  favor  within  the  circle  of  Trinity  Church. 

PHILIP  EMBURY^CLASS  LEADER 

Of  this  pure,  gentle,  noble  man,  it  has  been  aptly  said,  "In  the  order  of  Divine 
Providence  he  was  summoned  to  act  as  the  humble  instrument  of  projecting  the 
most  beneficent  and  greatest  religious  enterprise  which  has  arisen  on  this  Con- 
tinent." He  was  born  in  Ireland  of  German  parentage,  to  which  country  his 
forbears  were  exiled  on  account  of  their  religion.  He  became  a  Methodist 
under  the  preaching  of  Mr.  Wesley,  and  respecting  the  decisive  religious  experi- 
ence through  which  he  passed  he  made  record  of  it  as  having  occurred 
on  Christmas  Day,  1752.  At  this  time  he  was  twenty-four  years  of  age,  having 
been  born  in  1728  and  baptized  in  the  Church  of  England  the  same  year.  Within 
two  years,  following  his  initiation  into  the  Methodist  circle,  he  was  made  a  class 
leader  and  a  lay  preacher  and,  with  good  Philip  Guier,  the  schoolmaster  of 
his  youth,  he  was  regarded  as  a  pastor  of  his  racial  kindred,  the  Palatines,  who 
were  grouped  in  several  villages  around  the  village  in  which  he  was  born. 

In  his  Journal,  Mr.  Wesley  makes  record  of  three  successive  visits  he  made 
to  these  Palatine  villages.  Of  his  visit  in  1756  he  says,  "I  found  much  life 
among  this  plain,  artless,  serious  people."  Of  his  visit  in  1758  he  says,  "They 
heard  and  received  the  truth  which  is  able  to  save  their  souls."  In  one  of  these 
villages,  Court  Matrix,  Embury  was  the  chief  instrument  in  the  building  of  a 
Methodist  Chapel. 


DENTISTRY  THAT  LASTS 

Waterbury  Dental  Work  is  not  only 
lasting,  but  is  so  natural  that  it  defies 
detection.  These  beautiful  Roofless  Teeth 
are  a  recent  achievement  of  Waterbury 
skill.  They  do  not  interfere  with  taste, 
and  thus  contribute  innate  comfort  and 
pleasure  in  eating  everything  desired.  No 
facial  movement  loosens  or  dislodges  them, 
because  they  are  accurately  made  in 

The  New  WATERBURY  Way 

Come  here  in  the  morning,  have  your  old  teeth  extracted  FREE,  and  return  home 
at  night  with  a  NEW  set  that  fits  perfectly.  Decayed  teeth  saved — loose  teeth  tightened 
— missing  teeth  replaced  without  plates.  All  work  guaranteed  10  years.  Extractions 
and  dental  surgery  made  PAINLESS  by  our 

NEW  BOTANICAL  DISCOVERY 

Full  Sets  of  Teeth  5.00  up  llGold  Crowns,  22  karat  $5.00  up 

Gold  Fillings  $1.00  up  IjSilver  Fillings  50c.  up 

WATERBURY  DENTAL  COMPANY 

Incorporated 

29  W.  34th  St.,  New  York  414-416  Fulton  St.,  Brooklyn 

(3  Doors  East  of  Oppenheim,  Collins  &  Co.)  (2d  Door  West  Abraham  &  Straus'.) 

HOURS,  8  to  6;  SUNDAYS,  9  to  2 
German,   French  and  Swedish  Spoken.    Ladies  in  Attendance 


We  Have  Climbed  to  theTop 

Not  by  pulling  others  down,  but  by  carefully  stepping 
over  them  with  the  assistance  of  the  latest  improved 
methods  in  the  production  of  our  work  and  conduct 
of  our  business. 

ST.  GEORGE  LAUNDRY,  Inc. 

Alfred  Marks,  Manager 

66  to  74  Pineapple  Street 
Cor.  Henry  Street 
Phone  Alain  3940  BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 

We  Use  IVORY  SOAP  and  Filtered  Water 

All  Work  Done  Under  Strictly  Sanitary  Conditions 

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PHILIP  EMBURY— PREACHER 


At  the  Limerick  Conference,  held  in  1758,  and  over  which  Mr.  Wesley  pre- 
sided, Embury  was  recommended  to  a  place  in  the  ranks  of  the  itinerancy,  and 
his  name  was  placed  on  the  "reserve  list."  His  education  and  piety  ranked 
him  high  among  his  associates.  His  character  and  personality  distinguished  him 
as  fitted  for  leadership  in  the  Methodist  ranks.  In  physique,  he  presented  a 
commanding  appearance;  his  temperament  was  gentle  and  winning,  and  his 
religious  expression  singularly  devout  and  engaging.  He  was  married  in  the 
Rathkeale  Church  (Church  of  England), Tuesday,  October  31,  1758,  to  Margaret 
Sweitzer  of  Court  Matrix,  one  of  the  young  women  connected  with  the  Methodist 
Society  of  that  village,  in  which  Embury  had  been  chiefly  instrumental  in  the 
erection  of  a  Methodist  Chapel. 

The  domestic  motive  which  led  Embury  and  the  members  of  his  Methodist 
Class  to  emigrate  together  to  America  was  to  improve  their  pecuniary  and  social 
condition.  It  was  their  purpose,  as  soon  as  practicable  after  their  arrival,  to 
join  their  forces  in  the  linen  manufacturing  trade,  a  trade  in  which  some  of  their 
number  had  been  trained.  But  though  they  arrived  in  New  York,  August  10, 
1760,  it  was  not  till  February  1,  1763,  that  they  appear  on  record  as  seeking  out 
a  way  of  realizing  their  purpose.  On  this  date  each  name  of  the  male  members 
of  the  Embury  Class,  including  Embury  and  others,  were  signed  to  a  petition 
addressed  to  Governor  Monkton,  Governor  of  the  Province  of  New  York,  asking 
for  a  grant  of  Crown  Lands  on  which  they  proposed  to  establish  a  linen  manu- 
facturing industry.  The  first  clause  in  the  petition  reads,  "All  your  petitioners, 
except  William  Folk,  are  natives  of  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  and  all  of  the  estab- 
lished Church  of  England."  Another  clause  reads,  "Before  their  departure 
from  the  said  Kingdom  they  formed  themselves  into  a  company,  and  about 
two  years  and  a  half  ago  arrived  in  this  Province."  This  petition  is  on  file  at 
Albany,  New  York. 

For  reasons  unknown  the  plans  of  the  company  were  not  realized.  But 
so  far  as  Embury  and  the  members  of  his  Methodist  Class  were  concerned,  it 
plainly  appears  that  Providence  had  another  mission  for  them,  namely;  the 
mission  of  remaining  in  New  York  long  enough  to  secure  the  establishment  of 
organized  Methodism  in  America. 

During  his  first  six  years  in  New  York  Embury  suffered  severe  bereavement 
by  the  death  of  two  of  his  children  born  in  New  York,  and  two  of  his  four  brothers 
who  emigrated  writh  him,  the  two  brothers  being  John  and  Peter.  It  may 
be  inferred  that  this  fourfold  bereavement,  an  account  of  which  is  the  record  of 
Embury's  own  hand,  did  much  to  chasten  and  deepen  his  spiritual  life,  making 
him  not  less  but  more  eager  to  serve  the  will  of  Providence  in  his  day  and  genera- 
tion. 

EMBURY'S  METHODIST  ACTIVITIES  DURING  HIS 
FIRST  SIX  YEARS  IN  NEW  YORK 

To  what  extent  Embury  exercised  his  gifts  in  public  preaching  during  his 
first  six  years  in  New  York  is,  unfortunately,  without  available  documentary 
record.  Abel  Stevens,  one  of  American  Methodism's  foremost  historians  says, 
"It  can  hardly  be  doubted  that  on  arriving  in  New  York,  Embury,  a  Class  Leader 
and  also  a  licensed  Local  Preacher  in  Ireland,  attempted  some  religious  care  of 
the  few  Methodists  who  accompanied  him."  Rev.  Samuel  A.  Seaman  and 
other  historians  agree  with  Abel  Stevens  on  this  point. 


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Emanating  from  some  unknown  source  in  the  subsequent  years,  a  tradition 
gained  currency  that  soon  after  his  arrival  in  New  York,  Embury  associated  him- 
self with  the  Lutheran  Church,  but  no  evidence  of  this  exists.  On  the  contrary 
his  signature  to  an  existing  document,  written  three  years  after  his  arrival, 
refutes  this  tradition.  In  that  document  he  and  his  Methodist  associates  affirm 
the  fact  of  their  fellowship  with  the  Church  of  England. 

It  should  however  be  noted  that  not  a  single  fragment  of  documentary 
data,  related  to  Embury's  first  six  years  in  New  York,  affirms  that  he  did  no 
preaching  during  those  years.  Barbara  Heck  is  not  recorded  as  saying  that 
Embury  did  no  preaching  during  those  years.  Thomas  Taylor,  one  of  the  first 
trustees  of  the  New  York  Methodist  Society,  in  his  letter  to  Wesley,  does  not 
say  that  Embury  did  no  preaching  during  those  years.  But  over  against  all  non- 
affirmative  testimony  on  this  point  it  should  also  be  noted  that  Thomas  Morrell's 
Journal  notation,  respecting  his  mother,  leads  straight  to  the  implication  that 
Embury  did,  in  public  or  in  private,  engage  his  gifts  in  preaching  during  the  early 
part  of  his  first  six  years  in  New  York.  Thomas  Morrell's  Journal  notation  reads, 
"It  was  about  the  year  1760  she  (my  mother)  was  converted  to  God,  and  when 
Mr.  Embury  came  over,  she  was  among  the  first  who  joined  the  Society  in  New 
York,  and  consequently  among  the  first  Methodists  in  America."  Embury 
"came  over"  in  1760.  Therefore,  if  Thomas  Morrell's  mother  joined  the  Society 
in  New  York  when  "Mr.  Embury  came  over,"  the  inference  warranted  is  that 
this  occurred  during  or  near  the  year  1760,  and  that  she  was  led  to  take  this  step 
under  Embury's  preaching. 

Based  on  this  affirmative  notation  in  Thomas  Morrell's  Journal  regarding 
his  mother,  and  various  circumstantial  facts  related  to  the  six  years  in  question, 
which  are  elsewhere  referred  to  in  these  pages,  the  following  inference  appears 
to  be  fully  justified:  That  during  the  early  part  of  his  first  six  years  in  New  York 
Embury  did  some  preaching  of  a  more  or  less  public  sort,  but  that  later,  under 
the  handicap  of  having  no  suitable  place  in  which  to  gather  a  public  congregation, 
he  abandoned  for  a  time  this  particular  form  of  effort,  meanwhile  not  failing  to 
maintain  a  faithful  spiritual  care  of  the  little  Methodist  company  whose  class 
leader  he  had  been  in  Ireland  and  who,  with  him,  had  found  a  most  cordial  church 
home  in  Trinity  Church. 

BARBARA  HECK,  EMBURY'S  ASSISTANT  CLASS  LEADER 

Embury  and  Barbara  Heck  were  cousins  and  warmly  devoted  to  each  other. 
They  were  born  and  reared  in  the  same  village  in  Ireland.  Of  their  Methodist 
fellowship,  both  in  Ireland  and  in  New  York,  it  may  be  said  that  Barbara  Heck 
bore  the  relation  of  assistant  class  leader  to  Embury.  Her  intrepid  nature 
and  fervent,  Godly  spirit,  eminently  fitted  her  for  such  a  service.  She  was  of 
a  type  whose  ardent  piety  and  watchful  interest  would  impel  her  to  pay  frequent 
visits  to  the  homes  of  her  acquaintances,  especially  .the  homes  of  those  with 
whom  she  had  enjoyed  Methodist  Class  fellowship  in  the  homeland  and  with 
whom  she  had  emigrated;  making  their  religious  well-being  the  chief  object  of 
her  visits  and  having  in  mind  imparting  to  them  such  spiritual  stimulus  as  would 
render  it  quite  impossible  for  them  to  "grow  weary  in  well-doing."  Such  a 
service  Barbara  Heck  would  naturally  take  upon  herself.  Hence  the  suggestion 
is  quite  incredible  that  even  one  of  the  Methodist  Class  group  of  twelve  that 
came  over  together  in  1760  became  morally  lax,  having,  as  they  did,  the  constant 


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religious  care  of  Embury,  their  faithful  leader,  supplemented  by  the  persistent 
and  affectionate  spiritual  care  of  Barbara  Heck. 

Later  in  her  life,  Barbara  Heck  affirmed  that  from  her  eighteenth  year  she 
had  not  for  one  day  lost  the  witnessing  evidence  of  her  salvation.  Various 
church  edifices,  halls  of  colleges,  deaconess  homes  and  streets,  bear  her  name. 
With  her  husband  and  others  of  the  Embury  Class  who  came  over  together, 
she  migrated  from  New  York,  in  1770,  settled  for  a  time  in  Camden  Valley, 
Albany  County,  New  York,  and  later  moved  to  Canada.  A  few  years  ago  a 
public  subscription  monument  was  erected  at  her  grave  in  Prescott,  Ontario,  and 
was  dedicated  by  Bishop  John  W.  Hamilton. 

Phil.  Embury*  School-Mailer, 

GIVES  Notice,  that  on  the  fit  ft  Day  of  May  netft,  he  intends 
to  teach  Reading,  Writing,  and  Arithmetic):,  in  English, 
in  the'New  Scliocl-Hcufe,  now  building  in  Little  Qoeen-ftreet, 
next  Door  to  the  Lutheran  Minifters  :  And  a*  he  has  been  in- 
form'd,  that  fcvcral  Gentlemen  were  wilting  to  favour  him  with 
their  Children,  he  gives  farther  Nciicc,  that  if  a  fufficient  Number 
of  Scholars  mould  attend  his  School,  he  would  teach  in  Company 
with  Mr.  John  Embury,  (who  teaches  feveral  Branches  belonging, 
to  Trade  and  Bufinefs)  that  Children  might  be  carefully  attended, 
as.  he  faithfully  delires  the  Cood  of  the  Publick.  He  now  teaches 
at  Mr.  Samuel  Fefer^s,  in  Carman's-ftrcet; 

EMBURY'S  ADVERTISEMENT 
EMBURY  A  SCHOOL  MASTER  WHILE  A  RESIDENT  OF  NEW  YORK 

Embury  had  learned  the  house-building  trade  and  a  short  time  before  emi- 
grating had  been  chiefly  instrumental  in  the  building  of  a  Methodist  Chapel 
near  his  home  village.  But  soon  after  his  arrival  in  New  York  he  took  up  the 
profession  of  school  master,  for  which  his  early  education  had  qualified  him.  A 
public  announcement  of  this  first  appeared  in  the  advertisement  of  his  school 


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in  Weyman's  New  York  Gazette,  March  16,  1761,  and,  subsequently,  under 
the  caption,  "Philip  Embury,  School-Master."  The  advertisement  contains 
the  information  that  Embury  was  at  that  time  conducting  his  school  at  "Mr. 
Foster's  in  Carman  Street,"  but  that  in  "May  next"  he  would  transfer  his  school 
to  the  new  school-house  being  erected  in  Little  Queen  Street  (now  Cedar  Street). 
The  advertisement  further  states  that  "several  gentlemen  were  willing  to  favor 
him  with  their  children,"  to  whom  he  "intends  to  teach  reading,  writing  and  arith- 
metic, in  company  with. Mr.  John  Embury  (his  brother),  who  teaches  branches 
belonging  to  Trade  and  Business."  It  thus  appears  that  Embury  became  quite 
a  figure  in  the  educational  life  of  New  York  and,  consequently,  must  have  com- 
manded a  high  respect  for  his  intelligence  and  character  within  a  very  consider- 
able circle  of  well-known  and  influential  citizens. 

There  is  no  evidence  that  Embury  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade  in  New 
York,  excepting  a  record  in  the  "Old  Book"  of  the  few  weeks  he  wrought  at  his 
trade  in  the  building  of  the  Chapel,  and  a  few  hours  work  he  did  on  the  door  of 
William  Lupton's  burial  vault  beneath  the  Chapel. 

EMBURY'S  RESUMPTION  OF  PUBLIC  PREACHING  IN  1766 

The  record  of  Embury's  resumption  of  public  preaching  proceeds  from  two 
sources.  One  of  these  is  the  card-playing  incident  which  led  Barbara  Heck 
to  press  upon  him  her  appeal  that  he  should  resume  public  preaching  and  that 
he  should  use  his  own  rented  cottage  for  the  purpose.  Out  of  this  incident, 
related  as  a  tradition  by  a  group  of  aged  persons  to  Nathan  Bangs  fifty-two 
years  after  its  alleged  occurrence,  arose  the  inference  that  during  the  later  part 
of  his  first  six  years  in  New  York,  Embury  had  grown  morally  lax,  even  to  the 
degree  of  adopting  the  practice  of  card-playing,  and  that  his  religious  requicken- 
ing  and  resumption  of  public  preaching  were  due  to  Barbara  Heck's  appeal. 

Respecting  this  story,  and  the  inference  deduced  from  it,  let  this  be  observed: 
The  story  as  told  does  not  accuse  Embury  of  being  a  card-player.  It  does  not 
impute  to  him  any  kind  of  moral  delinquency,  nor  imply  anything  of  the  sort. 
On  the  contrary  the  appeal  recognizes  both  his  licensed  authority  to  resume 
public  preaching  and  his  moral  fitness  to  do  so.  However,  if  Barbara  Heck 
knew  Embury  had  morally  lapsed  and  had  become  a  card-player,  which  form 
of  pastime  the  story  involves  her  in  regarding  as  one  of  the  grossest  evidences 
of  moral  degeneration,  then  she  committed  a  grave  moral  offense  by  beseeching 
him  to  resume  public  preaching  before  having  publicly  confessed  his  moral 
undoing  and  given  public  assurance  of  his  moral  reclamation. 

Moreover,  such  a  course  on  Barbara  Heck's  part,  besides  being  a  reprehensi- 
ble act  in  itself,  would  have  invited  upon  Embury's  head  the  scorn  of  the  card- 
players  by  whom  he  was  well  known,  justifying  them  in  turning  upon  him  with 
the  rebuke,  "Physician,  heal  thyself!"  The  truth  is,  as  later  investigation 
has  plainly  shown,  the  Barbara  Heck  story  does  not  include  in  the  card-playing 
group  one  of  the  twelve  Methodists  who  came  over  with  Embury.  Nor  does 
it  afford  one  scintilla  of  evidence  that  Embury  was  one  of  the  card-players  whom 
Barbara  Heck  rebuked  or  that  during  any  part  of  his  first  six  years  in  New 
York  he  had  forfeited  his  moral  right  and  fitness  to  stand  up  at  any  moment  and 
preach. 

The  other  of  the  two  sources  from  which  the  record  of  Embury's  resumption 
of  public  preaching  proceeds  is  a  passage  from  Thomas  Taylor's  letter  to  Mr. 


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Wesley,  dated  April  11,  1768,  in  the  words,  "The  above  appears  to  me  to  be  a 
genuine  account  of  the  state  of  religion  in  New  York  eighteen  months  ago  when 
it  pleased  God  to  rouse  up  Embury  to  employ  his  talent  by  calling  sinners  to 
repentance." 

Respecting  this  reference  to  Embury  the  same  observations  apply  as  those 
made  in  the  case  of  Barbara  Heck's  appeal  to  Embury.  The  reference  imputes 
no  sinful  doing  to  Embury,  no  rebukeful  reflection  upon  his  Christian  character, 
no  intimation  that  he  had  permitted  his  Methodist  integrity  to  fall  under  dis- 
credit— nothing  of  that  sort.  The  phraseology,  "When  it  pleased  God  to  rouse 
up  Embury  to  employ  his  talent  by  calling  sinners  to  repentance,"  is  a  Metho- 
dist form  of  speech  which,  prior  to  this  instance  and  since,  has  been  applied  to 
thousands  of  preachers  and  laymen  whose  Christian  character  was  above  re- 
proach. The  words  simply  mean  that  at  the  time  mentioned  by  Thomas  Taylor, 
"God  was  pleased  to  rouse  up  Embury"  to  publicly  undertake  a  form  of  work 
which  for  a  time  he  had  not  publicly  been  doing,  a  form  of  work  which  he,  for 
local  reasons,  had  thought  impracticable.  That  this  had  been  his  attitude  for 
a  time  is  perfectly  consistent  with  the  judgment  and  conduct  of  a  conscientious 
man,  placed  in  his  difficult  circumstances. 

Multitudes  of  worthy  preachers  have  passed  through  a  like  experience  as 
to  the  wisdom  or  unwisdom  of  undertaking  certain  forms  of  work.  Where  is 
there  to-day  a  preacher  who  has  not? 

Moreover,  in  passing  judgment  upon  Embury's  attitude  in  these  six  years, 
his  record  and  attributes  should  be  held  in  view.  He  recorded  his  conversion 
as  having  occurred  on  Christmas  Day,  1752,  and  to  that  record  he  never  added 
any  record  of  a  "fall  from  grace"  and  a  reclamation  therefrom.  His  son,  Samuel, 
affirmed  that  family  worship  was  an  unbroken  observance  in  the  home.  Before 
emigrating  to  America  he  had  been  for  six  years  a  faithful  preacher  and  class- 
leader.  His  attributes  were  of  the  gentle,  grave,  stable  sort.  His  stature  was 
six  feet.  His  bearing  and  demeanor  were  that  of  a  high-minded  gentleman, 
and  his  saintly  face  most  genially  reflected  the  kindliness  of  his  heart  and  the 
sincerity  of  his  convictions  and  aims.  He  was  not  the  type  of  man  that  back- 
slides. And  the  affirmations  and  intimations  which  have  found  a  place  in 
Methodisms'  literature,  to  the  effect,  that  during  his  first  six  years  in  New  York 
Embury  played  the  role  of  a  card-playing  backslider,  put  a  blot  upon  his  name 
and  memory  which  is  not  warranted  by  any  sort  of  documentary  data,  nor  by 
a  single  element  in  the  constitutional  make  up  of  the  man. 

THE  RECORD  OF  EMBURY  PREACHING  IN  .HIS  HIRED  COTTAGE 

IN  1766 

As  already  stated  the  assumption  that  Embury  had  not  preached  in  New 
York  prior  to  1766  has  no  documentary  warrant  whatsoever.  It  is  an  assump- 
tion based  wholly  upon  documentary  silence  concerning  the  matter.  While 
against  this  assumption  there  is  some  documentary  data  and  many  circumstan- 
tial facts  which  strongly  favor  a  directly  opposite  assumption. 

However,  such  documentary  record  as  has  survived  that  period  introduces 
Embury  as  conducting  public  preaching  services  in  his  little  rented  cottage  on 
Barracks  Street,  now  City  Hall  Place,  in  October,  1766.  Associated  with  this 
record  is  the  oft  repeated  story  of  Barbara  Heck's  rebuke  of  a  group  of  card 
players,  followed  by  her  appeal  to  Embury  that  he  should  institute  at  once 


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public  preaching  services  in  his  cottage,  to  which  she  added  her  pledge  that  she 
would  gather  him  a  congregation.  The  record  further  has  it  that  at  first  Embury 
demurred  on  the  ground  that  no  suitable  public  preaching  place  was  available, 
but  afterwards  consented  to  the  suggestion  that  he  should  use  his  cottage  for  the 
purpose. 

In  pursuance  of  her  pledge,  it  may  be  assumed  that  Barbara  Heck  im- 
mediately set  out  to  gather  a  congregation  for  the  following  Sunday,  doubtless 
having  in  mind  the  purpose  that  it  should  include  the  group  of  sinners  whose 
card-playing  had  so  deeply  offended  her  Godly  soul.  But  if  this  was  her  pur- 
pose it  fell  sadly  short  of  realization  for,  according  to  the  record  which  has 
handed  down  this  story,  the  first  congregation  she  gathered  consisted  of  five 
persons,  not  one  of  whom  was  of  the  card-playing  group.  Perhaps  it  was  no 
easier  to  get  inveterate  card  players  to  church  then  than  now. 

But,  in  making  good  her  pledge,  Barbara  must  soon  have  had  better  success, 
for  in  a  few  weeks  the  attendance  had  outgrown  the  capacity  of  Embury's 
cottage  and  a  larger  cottage  on  the  same  street  was  rented  in  which  to  accommo- 
date the  increasing  numbers  that  wished  to  hear  Embury  expound  the  Gospel 
according  to  Methodist  interpretation. 

EMBURY  A  LONELY  PREACHER 

In  connection  with  these  eventful  weeks,  coupled  with  the  previous  six  years 
Embury  had  lived  in  New  York,  it  deserves  to  be  noted  that  so  far  as  he  knew 
he  was  the  only  Methodist  preacher  in  America.  He  had  not  seen  or  heard 
of  another.  It  is  true  Providence  had  ordained  that  another  would  soon  emerge, 
as  out  of  the  darkness,  and  join  him  in  his  undertaking,  but  as  yet  no  intima- 
tion of  this  had  come  to  him.  To  his  own  knowledge  and  within  the  realm  of 
his  own  reflections  he  stood  alone — the  first  and  only  Methodist  preacher  that 
had  yet  set  foot  on  these  distant  shores. 

On  the  one  hand  this  consideration  may,  indeed,  be  regarded  as  representing 
a  pathetic  feature  in  Embury's  situation,  but  on  the  other  hand  as  adding  lustre 
to  his  Methodist  fidelity,  courage  and  daring.  His  single-handed  undertaking 
of  publicly  proclaiming  Methodist  interpretation  of  Christian  doctrine  in  the 
New  York  of  that  day  was  no  small  matter.  It  was  no  task  for  a  hesitating, 
timid  weakling,  but  for  one  having  unquenchable  convictions  and  a  Pauline 
audacity. 

MR.  WESLEY  AND  EMBURY 

It  is  quite  believable  that  Embury,  during  his  first  six  years  in  New  York, 
kept  Mr.  Wesley  informed  of  the  situation  and  doings  of  himself  and  his  Metho- 
dist associates.  His  son,  Samuel,  affirmed  for  record  that  his  father  corres- 
ponded with  Mr.  Wesley.  Embury  had  a  good  education,  was  a  superior  penman 
and,  therefore,  capable  of  doing  the  thing  his  son  affirmed  he  did.  Mr.  Wesley 
had  known  Embury  in  Ireland  and  had  consented  to  his  candidacy  for  service 
in  the  itinerancy.  Six  weeks  after  Embury  and  the  members  of  his  Class  had 
emigrated  Mr.  Wesley,  for  the'  third  time,  visited  their  native  village  and  learned 
that  they  had  gone  to  America. 

Embury  was  not  sent  to  America  by  Mr.  Wesley  as  were  other  preachers 
later.  He  came  of  his  own  accord,  pressed  to  do  so  as  a  means  of  bettering  his 
social  conditions.   But  if  subsequently  he  conveyed  to  Mr.  Welsey  the  informa- 


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tion  that  he  and  his  Class  were  in  loyal  fellowship  with  Trinity  Church,  New 
York,  and  that  meanwhile  they  were  remaining  true  to  their  Methodist  indoc- 
trination, both  in  letter  and  spirit,  that  was  quite  sufficient  to  continue  Mr. 
Wesley's  endorsement  of  their  good  and  regular  standing  as  Methodists. 

In  seeking  the  fellowship  of  Trinity  Church,  Embury  and  the  members  of 
his  Class  did  just  what  Mr.  Wesley  would  have  them  do.  It  was  in  line  with 
Mr.  Wesley's  instruction  to  all  his  Societies  of  that  period,  therefore  in  line  with 
all  precedents.  In  that  period  not  a  single  Methodist  Society  was  considered 
as  detached  from  the  Church  of  England,  and  if  one  Society  had  assayed  to 
detach  itself  to  become  the  nucleus  of  a  sect,  Mr.  Wesley  would  have  immediately 
stamped  the  act  with  his  disapproval.  And  so  in  all  good  conscience  Embury 
could  have  written  Mr.  Wesley  of  himself  and  the  members  of  his  Class,  "We  are 
still  in  fellowship  with  the  Church  of  England,  while  in  doctrine  and  practice 
we  still  account  ourselves  as  Methodists  and  under  your  direction." 

PERSONNEL  OF  THE  SOCIETY  IN  OCTOBER,  1766 

With  the  exception  of  Philip  Embury's  brother,  Peter,  who  had  died  one 
year  before,  and  two  other  additions  thereto,  the  Society  in  October,  1766,  appears 
to  have  been  composed  of  the  same  group  of  Methodists  that  arrived  in  New 
York  in  1760.  Four  of  these  are  recorded  as  being  in  the  so-called  "first  congre- 
gation," which  Barbara  Heck  is  said  to  have  pledged  Embury  she  would  gather, 
namely:  Philip  Embury  and  his  wife,  Paul  Heck  and  Barbara  Heck,  his  wife. 
Others  of  the  arrivals  in  1760,  that  are  entitled  to  be  grouped  with  these,  are  the 
widow  of  Peter  Embury;  David  Embury  and  his  wife;  Jacob  Dulmage  and  his 
wife  and  son  Jacob,  and  Valentine  Tetler.  The  wife  of  Jacob  Dulmage,  Sr.,  was 
Embury's  sister. 

These  persons,  though  born  in  Ireland,  were,  as  their  names  indicate,  of 
German  descent.  That  they  were  the  first  members  of  the  first  Methodist 
Society  in  New  York  appears  not  alone  on  the  ground  that  they  comprised  Em- 
bury's Methodist  Class  in  Ireland,  came  over  with  him,  and  had  been  all  along 
in  Methodist  fellowship  with  him,  but  also  on  the  ground  of  the  following  docu- 
mentary testimony:  One  of  the  first  board  of  trustees,  Thomas  Taylor,  addressed 
a  letter  to  Mr.  Wesley,  April  11,  1768,  in  which,  referring  to  Embury's  preach- 
ing in  his  own  cottage,  says,  "A  few  were  soon  collected  together  and  joined 
into  a  little  society,  chiefly  his  (Embury's)  own  countrymen,  Irish  Germans." 
The  only  fault  with  this  significant  bit  of  epistolary  information  is  that  it  was 
not  made  to  include  a  recognition  of  the  fact  that  these  same  "Irish  Germans" 
were  "collected  together  and  joined  into  a  little  society"  in  Ireland  by  Mr.  Wes- 
ley and  Embury,  and  from  that  time  on  had  not  ceased  to  maintain  their  Metho- 
dist fellowship.  Joseph  Pilmoor's  testimony  agrees  with  Taylor's. 

In  addition  to  the  "Irish  Germans,"  the  personnel  of  the  Society  in  October, 
1766,  included  the  mother  of  Thomas  Morrell,  who  is  recorded  as  being  one  of 
the  first  that  joined,  and  most  probably  John  Lawrence  and  Betty,  an  African 
servant,  both  of  whom  are  recorded  as  having  been  in  the  so-called  "first  congre- 
gation." 

PERSONNEL  OF  THE  SOCIETY  IN  NOVEMBER  AND  DECEMBER,  1766 

During  the  following  two  months,  November  and  December,  it  appears 
that  the  additions  to  the  Society  were,  Catherine  Taylor;  Mary  Parkes;  James 


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Hodge;  Addison  Low;  John  Buckley;  Mrs.  Deverick  and  Billy  Littlewood,  the 
latter  being  the  master  of  the  Poor  House  whose  conversion  occurred  on  the 
occasion  of  one  of  Embury's  preaching  visits  to  that  institution. 

It  is  not,  however,  to  be  assumed  that  all  who  were  awakened  and  acknowl- 
edged their  religious  indebtedness  to  Embury's  preaching  joined  the  Society. 
The  records  of  those  days  show  that  many  of  these  did  not. 

FIRST  THREE  MONTHS  OF  1767 

During  the  first  or  second  week  of  1767  the  Society  received  most  helpful 
additions  in  the  persons  of  Charles  White  and  Richard  Sause,  two  Methodist 
Merchants  who  had  just  arrived  from  Dublin,  Ireland.  Both  of  these  later 
became  trustees.  Shortly  after,  William  Lupton,  a  prosperous  New  York 
merchant,  added  the  weight  of  his  well-known  name  and  striking  personality. 
And  a  few  days  later  Providence  ushered  into  the  presence  of  the  assembled 
Society  the  redoubtable  soldier  preacher,  Capt.  Thomas  Webb,  the  barracks- 
master  at  Albany.  Attired  in  his  regimentals,  his  sword  dangling  at  his  side 
and  the  socket  of  his  lost  right  eye  hidden  by  a  green  shade,  Capt.  Webb's  strange 
and  striking  presence,  it  is  said,  created  the  apprehension  that  he  had  come  on 
an  unfriendly  errand.  Not  one  of  the  little  company  had  previously  seen  him 
or  heard  of  him.  But  all  fears  were  allayed  as  he  proceeded  to  relate  the  story 
of  his  awakening  and  conversion,  which  had  occurred  in  England  two  years 
before  under  the  preaching  of  Mr.  Wesley,  and  by  whom  he  had  been  licensed 
to  preach.  That  he  would  consent  to  remain  as  a  helper  was  the  ardent  appeal 
and  prayer  of  all,  and  no  assurance  is  needed  that  his  consent  to  remain  greatly 
comforted  and  heartened  Embury  who  would  henceforth  have  not  only  a  most 
capable  preaching  assistant,  but  also  one  whose  credentials  proceeded  from  the 
same  source  as  his  own. 

SHIFTED  BASE  OF  OPERATIONS  TO  THE  RIGGING  LOFT 

This  shift  appears  to  have  occurred  in  April,  1767,  and  was  made  imperative 
by  the  need  of  larger  quarters  in  which  to  accommodate  the  rapidly  growing 
work.  The  Rigging  Loft,  some  years  before,  had  been  used  as  a  religious  meeting 
place  by  the  Baptists.  It  was  a  second  story  room,  sixty  feet  in  length  and 
eighteen  feet  in  width  of  a  building  situated  on  Cart  and  Horse  Street,  now 
William  Street,  the  site  to-day  being  identified  as  number  120. 

In  the  experiences  of  the  Society  the  Rigging  Loft  became  a  veritable 
Bethel,  and  notwithstanding  its  much  larger  capacity  it  was  soon  found  to  be 
too  small  to  afford  room  for  the  increasing  numbers  who  desired  to  share  in  its 
awakening  and  pentecostal  services. 

HOURS  AT  WHICH  THE  SOCIETY  HELD  ITS  PUBLIC  SERVICES 

The  hours  at  which  the  Methodists  of  those  first  months,  and  for  years 
later,  held  their  services  reveals  the  high  esteem  and  warm  affection  which  they 
cherished  for  the  Church  of  England  to  which  they  were  attached.  From 
their  point  of  view  the  evangelistic  work  in  which  they  were  engaged  was  not 
outside  of  the  Church  of  England  but  within  its  pale.  Therefore  they  held  no 
services  at  hours  corresponding  to  the  hours  of  public  service  conducted  at  their 
Church,  but  utilized  earlier  and  later  hours. 


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Regarding  this,  the  Rev.  Samuel  Seaman,  in  his  "Annals  of  New  York 
Methodism,"  says  of  the  services  at  the  Rigging  Loft,  "Here  there  was  preaching 
on  Sabbath  mornings  at  six  o'clock,  and  on  Sabbath  evenings  also.  The  singularly 
early  hour  of  the  morning  service  is  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  Methodists 
then  regarded  themselves  as  a  Society  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  were 
careful  not  to  interfere  with  the  regular  services  of  that  Church."  Under  the 
direction  of  Mr.  Wesley  precisely  the  same  regulation  was  observed  by  the 
Methodists  in  England  and  Ireland  during  those  early  years. 

On  this  and  other  points,  respecting  the  relation  the  early  Methodists  bore 
to  the  Church  of  England,  Mr.  Wesley  wrote,  "//  was  one  of  oar  original  rules 
that  every  member  of  our  Societies  should  attend  the  Church  and  Sacrament,  unless 
he  had  been  bred  among  Christians  of  any  other  denomination."  The  minutes  of 
the  Methodist  Conference  at  Bristol,  England,  in  1768,  over  which  Mr.  Wesley 
presided,  contain  the  following  declaration:  "Let  us  keep  to  the  Church.  Over 
and  above  all  the  reasons  that  were  formerly  given  for  this  we  add  another,  now  from 
long  experience.  They  that  leave  the  Church  leave  the  Methodists.  Therefore 
carefully  avoid  whatever  has  a  tendency  to  separate  men  from  the  Church.  In 
particular  preaching  at  any  hour  that  hinders  them  from  going  to  it." 

Regarding  themselves  as  still  under  the  "direction  of  the  Rev.  John  Wesley" 
after  their  arrival  in  New  York,  Embury  and  the  members  of  his  Class  continued 
to  faithfully  observe  this  order;  and  so  did  their  successors,  including  all  the 
preachers  whom  Mr.  Wesley  sent  over,  for  a  subsequent  period  of  sixteen  years. 


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MOVEMENT  TO  BUILD  A  CHAPEL 


Within  six  months  after  the  Society  had  taken  possession  of  the  Rigging 
Loft,  and  after  prolonged  heartsearching  and  prayer,  a  determination  was 
reached  to  attempt  the  erection  of  a  Chapel,  and  for  this  purpose  a  subscription 
paper  was  drawn  up,  containing  the  following  Preamble  and  Appeal: 

"A  number  of  persons  desirous  to  worship  God  in  spirit  and  in  truth,  commonly 
called  Methodists  (under  the  direction  of  the  Rev.  John  Wesley)  whom  it  is  evident 
God  has  often  been  pleased  to  bless  in  their  meetings  in  New  York;  thinking  it 
would  be  more  for  the  glory  of  God  and  the  good  of  souls  had  they  a  more  convenient 
place  to  meet  in,  where  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  might  be  preached  without  the 
distinction  of  sects  or  parties;  and  as  Mr.  Embury  is  a  member  and  helper  in  the 
Gospel,  they  humbly  beg  the  assistance  of  Christian  friends  in  order  to  help  them  to 
build  a  small  house  for  that  purpose,  not  doubting  that  the  God  of  all  consolation  will 
abundantly  bless  all  such  as  are  willing  to  contribute  to  the  same." 

An  exact  copy  of  this  subscription  paper  is  still  in  the  Society's  possession 
and  is  accounted  as  a  priceless  treasure.  It  is  the  oldest  document  in  existence, 
containing  a  specific  record  of  the  concerted  religious  plans  and  activities  of  the 
Methodists  in  America. 

Relating  thereto,  three  things  should  be  noted  in  the  wording  of  the  Preamble 
and  Appeal: 

First:  That  the  persons  referred  to  regarded  themselves  as  "under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Rev.  John  Wesley." 

Second:  That  the  persons  referred  to  disclaimed  being  actuated  by  partisan 
or  sectarian  aims. 

Third :  That  the  persons  referred  to  rested  their  hope  in  the  success  of  their 
appeal  on  the  good  name  and  highly  esteemed  character  of  their  leader,  which 
appears  in  the  sentence,  "And  as  Mr.  Philip  Embury  is  a  member  and  a  helper 
in  the  Gospel,  they  humbly  beg  the  assistance  of  Christian  friends  in  order  to  enable 
them  to  build  a  small  house  for  that  purpose" — the  purpose  of  preaching  "the  Gospel 
of  Jesus  Christ  without  distinction  of  sects  or  parties." 

The  wording  and  spirit  of  the  Preamble  to  the  subscription  paper  shows 
that  it  was  consciously  and  purposely  addressed  to  the  Trinity  Church  circle, 
a  fact  that  appears  in  the  introduction  of  Mr.  Wesley's  name  therein,  a  name 
known  in  that  circle  as  representing  a  noted  Church  of  England  clergyman  who 
had  established  many  hundreds  of  Methodist  Societies,  so-called,  throughout 
England  and  Ireland.  And  a  like  conscious  purpose  appears  in  the  introduction 
of  Mr.  Philip  Embury's  name  into  the  Appeal,  the  name  of  a  most  worthy 
communicant  of  Trinity  Church,  who  for  more  than  six  years  had  been  known 
in  that  circle  as  one  of  Mr.  Wesley's  lay  preachers. 

Right  here  this  question  demands  an  answer:  If  Embury  and  his  Methodist 
associates  had,  during  the  prior  six  years  of  their  residence  in  New  York,  indulged 
in  any  sort  of  practices  unworthy  of  their  Methodist  profession  this  must  have 
been  known  in  the  Trinity  Church  circle;  therefore,  if  true,  would  they  have 
permitted  it  to  have  been  written  in  the  Preamble  of  the  subscription  paper 
that  they  were  "under  the  direction  of  the  Rev.  John  Wesley"? 

Any  rational  and  fair  answer  to  this  question  must  certainly  be  one  that 
clears  Embury  and  his  group  of  twelve  of  the  imputation  that,  during  any  part 


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of  the  prior  six  years,  they  had  been  guilty  of  conduct  contrary  to  Mr.  Wesley's 
direction. 

Let  Embury  and  his  original  Methodist  discipleship  of  twelve  be  judged  by 
their  own  documentary  testimony;  not  by  sectional  bias,  nor  by  inferences  of  the 
nature  of  random  guesses.  Standing  alone,  the  wording  of  the  Preamble  to 
the  subscription  paper  is  a  convincing  assurance  of  the  unbroken  continuity 
of  their  previous  Methodist  and  Christian  integrity.  And  yet  there  are  many 
other  assurances,  as  will  appear. 

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The  response  in  subscriptions  to  the  Chapel  building  movement  was  immedi- 
ate and  generous.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  subscribers  were  secured  and,  as 
previously  noted,  a  complete  copy  of  the  subscription  list,  including  the  amount 
annexed  to  each  name,  is  to-day  in  the  Society's  possession.  Of  this  list  it  is 
quite  safe  to  affirm  that  nine-tenths  of  the  persons  represented  were  affiliated 
with  Trinity  Church,  the  other  tenth  representing  a  few  friendly  Moravians 
and  here  and  there  a  friend  related  to  the  other  city  churches.  Excepting  the 
Moravian  and  Trinity  Church  all  the  other  churches  of  the  city  adhered  to  the 
ultra  Calvinistic  doctrine  of  those  days  and  their  ministers  denounced  the  "free 
salvation"  teachings  of  the  Methodists,  which  led  many  of  their  adherents  not 
only  to  oppose  the  Methodists  on  points  of  doctrines  but  also  to  persecute  them. 

Moreover  the  subscription  list  is  not  only  significant  as  to  numbers  and  the 
circle  from  which  the  names  were  chiefly  gleaned,  but  also  on  account  of  the  high 
social  standing  of  a  very  considerable  number  of  the  subscribers.  Among 
these  were  the  following: 

Clergymen  of  Trinity  Church:  Rev.  Samuel  Auchmuty;  Rev.  John  Olgilvie; 
Rev.  Charles  Inglis. 

Vestrymen  of  Trinity  Church:  Grove  Bend;  Thomas  More;  Thomas  Tucker; 
Andrew  Hamersley;  Edward  Laight;  David  Clarkson;  Gabriel  Ludlow;  Joseph 
Reade;  Nicholas  Stuyvesant;  Charles  Williams;  Thomas  Ellison;  Elias  Desbros- 
ses;  Peter  Van  Schaick. 

Other  prominent  subscribers  of  Trinity  Church:  Philip  Livingston,  member 
of  the  First  Congress;  James  Duane,  former  Mayor;  James  H.  Cruger,  Mayor 
incumbent;  Theodore  Van  Wick,  Alderman;  Christopher  Stymets,  Alderman; 
James  Delancy,  Lieutenant  Governor;  Thomas'  Jones,  City  Recorder;  Pe  er 
Livingston;  Oliver  Delancy;  Leonard  Lispenard;  Frederick  De  Peyster;  Mrs. 
Henry  Barclay,  widow  of  the  third  rector  of  Trinity  Church;  Professor  Middleton, 
Kings  College;  Isaac  Low;  Capt.  Randall;  Henry  WThite;  Peter  Remsen;  John 
Chass;  Lambert  Garrison;  Mr.  Axtel;  John  Watts. 

Subscribers  of  Trinity  Church  who  were  members  of  the  Methodist  Society: 
Philip  Embury  (by  services  rendered) ;  Mary  Embury;  Paul  Heck;  Barbara  Heck; 
David  Embury  and  wife;  Valentine  Tetler;  Capt.  W'ebb;  William  Lupton; 
James  Jarvis;  Henry  Newton;  Charles  White;  Richard  Sause;  Stephen  Sands; 
John  Staples;  Thomas  Brinkle;  Jacob  Hick;  Jonathan  Morrell,  father  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Morrell. 

Later,  Capt.  Webb  gathered  subscriptions  in  Philadelphia,  aggregating 
thirty  pounds;  and  still  later  Mr.  Wesley  sent  over  the  equivalent  of  fifty  pounds, 
part  in  cash  and  the  remainder  in  books  to  be  sold.    But  aside  from  these  two 


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amounts,  aggregating  eighty  pounds,  it  plainly  appears  that  a  large  part  of  the 
initial  incentive,  the  rapid  progress  and  the  ultimate  success  of  the  Chapel 
building  movement,  should  be  credited  to  the  social,  moral  and  financial  support 
rendered  by  the  Trinity  Church  circle. 

And  the  considerations  that  prompted  this  support  are  obvious.  The 
Methodists,  as  already  observed,  were  themselves  of  the  Trinity  Church  circle, 
though  in  their  Society  undertakings  they  accounted  themselves  as  "under  the 
direction  of  Rev.  John  Wesley."  Their  local  leader,  Philip  Embury,  was  a  lay 
(local)  preacher  under  Mr.  Wesley's  appointment.  The  object  of  their  Society, 
fellowships  and  aims,  was  the  awakening  of  the  irreligious,  both  within  and  without 
their  Church.  It  was  these  considerations  that  led  the  Trinity  Church  circle 
to  sponsor  the  Methodist  Society  in  New  York  and  its  Chapel  building  movement. 

PURCHASED  BUILDING  PLOT  ON  JOHN  STREET— SITE  OF 
PRESENT  CHURCH 

Following  the  generous  response  the  circulation  of  the  subscription  paper 
received,  a  plot  was  purchased  of  the  widow  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Barclay,  third 
rector  of  Trinity  Church,  the  same  plot  being  the  site  of  the  present  John  Street 
Church.  The  surrounding  situation  was  then  known  as  Golden  Hill.  Includ- 
ing a  small  cottage,  occupying  a  part  of  the  plot,  later  used  for  many  years  as  a 
parsonage,  the  price  paid  was  fifteen  hundred  pounds.  The  cottage  may  be 
seen  in  the  engraving,  a  little  to  the  right  of  the  front  entrance  to  the  Chapel. 

THE  CHAPEL  UNDER  ERECTION 

The  plans  called  for  a  Chapel  with  a  capacity  for  seating  seven  hundred. 
Its  erection  was  begun  in  March,  1768.  Its  total  cost  is  not  known.  It  is 
assumed  that  not  a  little  gratuitous  labor  was  expended  upon  it,  including 
donations  of  materials,  but  how  much  these  two  items  represented  in  cash  value 
is  not  known.  The  records  show  that  one,  Samuel  Edmonds,  received  more 
than  five  hundred  pounds  for  mason  work  and  materials;  and  that  one,  David 
Norris,  received  more  than  one  hundred  pounds  for  material  and  labor.  One 
Thomas  Bell,  an  English  Methodist  emigrant,  for  a  short  time  a  member  of 
the  Society,  is  listed  as  a  subscriber  of  one  pound  and  is  on  record,  in  a  letter 
he  wrote  Mr.  Wesley,  as  having  "Wrought  upon  the  Chapel  six  days."  Mr. 
Embury,  as  previously  noted,  soon  after  his  arrival  in  New  York,  took  up  the 
school -master's  profession,  but  the  trustees'  records  show  that  for  some  weeks 
he  wrought  upon  the  Chapel  and,  it  is  said,  Barbara  Heck  aided  in  whitewashing 
parts  of  its  interior. 

DEDICATION  OF  THE  CHAPEL 

Though  not  fully  completed  the  Chapel  was  dedicated  October  30,  1768, 
eight  months  after  its  erection  was  begun.  This  was  a  day  of  great  exultation 
in  the  Methodist  circle.  And  it  may  be  taken  for  granted  as  a  moral  certainty, 
that  in  the  forefront  of  the  exulting  chorus  were  Paul  and  Barbara  Heck  and 
the  rest  of  the  original  Embury  group  whose  years  of  prayer,  faith,  patience 
and  hope  now  had  their  reward  in  the  sight  of  their  eyes. 

Embury  preached  the  dedicatory  sermon.  None  other  could  have  appro- 
priately performed  that  service.    Not  Capt.  Webb,  who  appears  to  have  been 


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absent  on  the  day  of  dedication,  and  whose  intermittent  connection  with  the 
Society  had  at  this  time  covered  less  than  sixteen  months.  If  Mr.  Wesley  had 
been  present  he  would  not  have  so  worthily  deserved  that  distinguished  honor 
as  did  Embury.  It  is  said  the  Chapel  was  crowded  to  the  doors  and  that  hundreds 
were  unable  to  gain  admission.  None  will  doubt  this.  The  text  of  the  dedica- 
tory sermon  was,  Sow  to  yourselves  in  righteousness,  reap  in  mercy;  break  up  your 
fallow  ground,  for  it  is  time  to  seek  the  Lord,  till  he  come  and  rain  righteousness 
upon  you. —  Hosea  x.  12. 


THE  FIRST  CHURCH 


The  text  was  well  chosen,  typical  of  the  texts  the  early  Methodist  preachers 
employed  as  the  basis  of  their  evangelistic  message.  That  the  sermon  was 
eminently  worthy  of  the  occasion  is  assured  by  the  intelligence  and  Godly  charac- 
ter of  the  man  who  spoke  it. 

The  copy  of  the  Bible  from  which  Embury  announced  the  text  is  to-day 
the  property  of  the  Society  and  is  known  as  the  "Embury  Bible." 

The  Chapel  was  first  known  as  "Wesley  Chapel."  In  his  Journal  Mr. 
Wesley  designated  it  as  the  "First  Preaching  (Methodist)  House  in  America." 
After  the  organization,  in  1784,  of  the  American  Methodist  Societies  into  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  it  became  known  as  the  John  Street  Church. 
For  many  years  its  auditorium  was  the  most  commodious  of  any  edifice  of  wor- 
ship erected  by  the  American  Methodists. 

CONGREGATION  COMPARED  WITH  SOCIETY  MEMBERSHIP 

One  of  the  particular  features  that  characterized  the  early  years  of  the 
Methodist  Society  in  New  York  was  the  marked  contrast  between  the  numbers 
comprising  the  congregation  and  the  Society  membership.  Shortly  after  Richard 
Boardman  arrived  in  New  York — his  arrival  occurring  in  November",  1769,  thirteen 
months  after  the  dedication  of  the  Chapel — he  wrote  Mr.  Wesley,  saying,  "About 
a  third  part  of  those  who  attend  get  in,  the  rest  are  glad  to  hear  without.  There 


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appears  such  a  willingness  in  the  Americans  to  hear  the  Word  as  I  never  saw 
before."  A  few  months  later  Joseph  Pilmoor  wrote  Mr.  Wesley  from  New  York 
saying,  "Our  congregations  are  large  *  *  *  The  Society  here  consists  of 
about  a  hundred  members,  besides  probationers."  The  small  number  in  mem- 
bership, compared  with  the  large  number  comprising  the  congregation,  may 
be  explained,  in  part,  on  the  ground  of  the  migratory  character  of  the  city's 
population. 

IN-DOOR  PREACHING  EXCLUSIVELY 

Another  particular  characteristic  of  the  early  Methodist  preaching  in 
New  York  was  that  it  all  occurred  in-doors.  All  the  early  Methodist  preachers 
in  England  and  Ireland  did  much  out-door  preaching,  and  so  did  the  early 
Methodist  preachers  in  America.  It  is  recorded  of  Webb,  Williams,  Boardman, 
Pilmoor  and  others  that  in  Philadelphia,  Baltimore  and  elsewhere,  they  frequently 
preached  out  in  the  open,  on  the  Commons  and  at  various  other  out-of-door, 
public  assembling  places;  but  not  one  of  them  is  recorded  as  having  attempted 
an  out-door  preaching  service  in  New  York.  Most  likely  the  explanation  is, 
it  was  understood  that  the  New  York  of  that  day  would  not  tolerate  an  "irregu- 
larity" of  that  sort,  either  by  the  good  Embury  or  by  any  of  his  successors. 
This  consideration  is  significant  of  the  greater  difficulties  that  the  planting  of 
Methodism  encountered  in  New  York  than  in  places  farther  south. 

FIRST  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

The  first  Board  of  Trustees  was  comprised  of  Philip  Embury;  Capt.  Webb; 
William  Lupton;  Charles  White;  Richard  Sause;  Henry  Newton;  Paul  Heck 
and  Thomas  Taylor.  In  the  long  succession  of  John  Street  trustees  these  were 
eminently  worthy  sires.  Philip  Embury  is  not  credited  with  a  cash  subscrip- 
tion to  the  Building  Fund,  but  as  estimated  by  all  the  services  he  rendered 
in  time  expended,  in  gratis  preaching,  and  by  his  Godly  reputation,  he  gave 
"more  than  they  all."  Capt.  Webb  held  the  rank  of  a  Captain  in  the  British 
army.  He  was  converted  under  Wesley  in  1764  and  licensed  by  him  to  preach. 
He  subscribed  thirty  pounds  to  the  Building  Fund.  William  Lupton  had  served 
in  the  French  War  under  Capt.  Webb  and  came  to  New  York  with  his  regiment 
in  1753,  and  later  became  a  merchant.  He  succeeded  Embury  as  treasurer. 
His  motto  was,  as  recorded,  "The  Church  first,  then  my  family."  He  subscribed 
twenty  pounds  to  the  Building  Fund.  Charles  White  and  Richard  Sause  were 
merchants;  both  had  been  Methodists  in  Dublin,  and  arrived  in  New  York  in 
January,  1767.  Their  subscriptions  to  the  Building  Fund  were,  respectively, 
five  pounds  and  ten  pounds.  Henry  Newton  is  featured  as  taking  special  interest 
in  providing  comforts  for  the  domestic  life  of  the  preachers.  He  subscribed 
ten  pounds  to  the  Building  Fund,  and  several  years  later  served  as  treasurer. 
Paul  Heck  subscribed  to  the  Building  Fund  three  pounds.  He  and  his  wife, 
the  famous  Barbara  Heck,  as  previously  noted,  arrived  in  New  York  with  Embury 
and  with  ten  other  Methodists,  August  10,  1760.  Thomas  Taylor  subscribed 
to  the  Building  Fund  one  pound.  He  had  been  a  Methodist  in  England  and 
came  to  America  in  the  latter  part  of  1767.  Five  months  later  he  wrote  to 
Mr.  Wesley  giving  details  of  the  movement  to  build  a  Preaching-House,  to  which 
he  added  an  urgent  request  that  preachers  be  sent  to  aid  in  the  work.  Other  data, 
however,  seems  to  quite  conclusively  show  that  Embury  and  Webb  had  written 
Mr.  Wesley  of  the  work  and  its  need  of  more  helpers  before  Taylor  wrote  his 
account  and  appeal. 


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the  scene  Embury  was  relegated  to  second  place.  Prior  to,  at  and  subsequent 
to,  the  initiation  of  the  building  movement,  Embury  was  the  commander  in 
chief.  The  documentary  details  show  this.  Capt.  Webb  rendered  invaluable 
aid  by  his  preaching,  by  his  generous  subscription  and  other  services;  but  fully 
two-thirds  of  the  time,  covered  by  the  particular  events  here  under  review, 
he  was  off  preaching  on  Long  Island,  in  New  Jersey,  in  Philadelphia  and  in 
regions  farther  south.  Barbara  Heck  and  others  were  loyal  and  useful  helpers. 
But  Embury  was  the  supreme  figure  in  the  whole  movement  from  the  starting 
point  (whether  that  point  be  assigned  to  August,  1760,  or  October,  1766)  until 
the  arrival  of  Robert  Williams  in  September,  1769. 

At  every  vital  point  Embury's  front  rank  appears.  The  Preamble  of  the 
subscription  paper  contained  only  two  names,  Rev.  John  Wesley  and  Mr.  Philip 
Embury,  "a  helper  in  the  Gospel."  It  was  chiefly  on  the  strength  of  these  two 
names  that  the  subscriptions  were  solicited  and  secured. 

In  the  list  of  trustees  attached  to  the  building  plot  deed  Embury's  name 
stands  first,  and  the  records  show  that  from  the  inception  of  the  building 
movement  till  near  its  completion,  he  served  as  the  Society's  treasurer.  Thus 
he  simultaneously  filled  the  Society's  four  chief  offices — Pastor,  Class  Leader, 
Trustee,  Treasurer. 

And  what  is  the  significance  of  all  this?  It  logically  implies  and  fully  justi- 
fies the  assumption  that  in  the  Trinity  Church  circle,  wherein  the  subscription 
paper  received  nine-tenths  of  its  New  York  subscribers,  Embury  had  for  six 
years  been  known  as  a  Methodist,  possessing  elements  of  intelligence,  integrity 
and  piety,  which  rendered  him  worthy  of  the  utmost  confidence  and,  by  common 
consent,  singled  him  out  as  the  acknowledged  leader  of  the  Methodist  Society. 

OCTOBER,  1766,  TO  OCTOBER,  1768 
THE  STORY  OF  THESE  TWO  YEARS  REVIEWED 

The  Historical  Statement  in  the  Discipline  identifies  the  origin  of  the  first 
Methodist  Society  in  New  York  with  the  year  1766.  October  of  that  year  is 
generally  regarded  as  the  month  in  which  the  event  occurred.  Allowing,  there- 
fore, that  the  event  occurred  in  October,  1766,  it  is  made  to  appear  that  the 
activities  of  the  Society,  during  the  two  years  under  review,  were  associated  with 
three  meeting  places,  representing  the  following  divisions  in  months.  At  Em- 
bury's cottage  in  Barracks  Street,  two  months;  at  another  cottage,  on  the  same 
street,  two  months;  at  the  Rigging  Loft,  on  William  Street,  seventeen  months; 
these  divisions  of  time  making  two  years  from  the  point  of  the  alleged  beginning 
to  the  dedication  of  the  Chapel,  October  30,  1768. 

In  tracing  the  course  of  the  Society  through  these  two  years,  it  will  be 
readily  conceded  that  the  inauguration  of  the  building  movement  was  the  most 
significant  and  outstanding  evidence  of  progress  up  to  that  point.  It  was  for 
the  reason  that  it  denoted  the  point  at  which  the  Society  had  become  thoroughly 
unified,  conscious  of  its  power,  and  ready  to  enlist  all  its  energies  in  a  supreme 
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But  in  this  connection  it  should  be  observed  that  between  the  alleged  point 
of  beginning  in  October,  1766,  and  the  inauguration  of  the  building  movement 
in  September,  1767,  a  period  of  only  twelve  months  is  allowed,  which  raises  this 
pertinent  question:  How  can  this  unequalled  measure  of  progress  be  explained 
on  the  assumption  that  the  whole  of  it  occurred  within  the  compass  of  twelve 
brief  months?  It  certainly  cannot  be  explained  by  the  known  conditions  that 
originated  exclusively  within  this  short  period.  Nor  can  it  be  explained  by 
comparison  with  any  other  American  field  of  Methodist  activities  in  those  early 
years. 

As  touching  the  point  of  comparison  with  other  places,  this  appears:  If  it  be 
accepted  that  the  alleged  point  of  beginning  in  October,  1766,  makes  no  allowance 
for  prior  Methodist  activities  in  New  York  by  Embury  and  his  associates,  then 
this  is  the  unaccountable  and  altogether  unanalogous  situation  which  is  made 
to  appear,  namely:  that  in  rapidity  of  progress,  from  the  point  of  its  alleged 
beginning,  the  New  York  Society  had  no  parallel  in  any  other  American  field 
of  that  period,  and  this  in  the  face  of  the  generally  acknowledged  fact  that 
New  York  was  the  most  difficult  of  all  the  American  fields  in  which  Methodist 
activities  were  introduced  in  those  early  years. 

THE  BEGINNING  OF  METHODISM  IN  NEW  YORK 

In  Philadelphia  the  movement  to  acquire  the  ownership  of  a  Chapel  was 
preceded  by  two  years  of  Methodist  activities,  including  preaching  by  Capt. 
Webb,  beginning  in  the  early  part  of  1767.  In  Baltimore  the  movement  to 
build  a  Chapel  was  preceded  by  more  than  four  years  of  Methodist  activities, 
including  preaching. 

According  to  this  comparison  it  took  two  years  in  Philadelphia  and  more  than 
four  years  in  Baltimore  to  reach  the  point  of  advancement  that  New  York 
reached  in  one  year.  Why  this  difference?  In  view  of  this  difference,  is  it  cred- 
ible that  in  connection  with  the  New  York  Society  only  twelve  months  of  any  sort  of 
Methodist  activities  preceded  the  inauguration  of  the  building  movement?  It  may 
be  granted  that  this  could  have  occurred  within  so  brief  a  period  if  the  power  to 
perform  miracles  had  been  given  to  Embury  or  Webb.  But,  on  grounds  involving 
the  usual  operations  of  social,  moral  and  psychological  effects,  coupled  with  the 
mentioned  comparison  with  other  places,  does  it  appear  credible  that  the  New 
York  Society  after  only  twelve  months  of  activities  started  a  building  movement 
which,  within  a  few  weeks  had,  in  New  York  alone,  gathered  two  hundred  and 
fifty  subscribers,  not  a  few  of  whom  represented  the  most  prominent  persons  in 
the  city? 

Allowing,  therefore,  that  these  questions  demand  an  answer  that  logically 
accords  to  the  New  York  Chapel  building  movement  a  longer  period  of 
preparation  than  twelve  months,  then  what  shall  that  answer  be?  Is  not  this 
an  answer  that  naturally  and  logically  accords  with  the  circumstances  and  facts? 

That  prior  to  the  alleged  point  of  beginning  in  October,  1766,  Embury  had 
held  himself  and  his  Methodist  associates  in  loyal  fellowship  with  the  Trinity 
Church  circle;  that  within  that  circle  he  was  known  as  a  school-master  and  as 
one  of  Mr.  Wesley's  lay  preachers,  whose  piety  and  nobility  of  character  had 
won  for  him  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  clergy  and  many  others;  that 
these  had  noted  the  particular  religious  care  he  was  wont  to  exercise  over  his 
Methodist  associates,  and  his  desire  to  add  others  to  the  circle  of  their  particular 


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fellowship;  and  that  it  was  because  these  conditions  had  obtained  through  a 
period  of  six  years — dating  back  to  1760 — that  the  most  influential  persons  in 
the  Trinity  Church  circle  were  led  to  give  the  Methodist  Chapel  building  move- 
ment their  social,  moral  and  financial  aid,  thereby  making  possible  the  beginning 
of  the  building  movement  at  the  time  it  occurred,  followed  by  its  rapid  progress 
and  successful  completion. 

And,  furthermore,  allowing  that  this  answer  accords  with  the  facts,  it  fol- 
lows that  the  real  beginning  of  the  John  Street  Methodist  Society  took  place  in 
1760,  the  year  in  which  Embury  and  his  twelve  Methodist  associates  transferred 
their  Methodist  Class  fellowship  from  the  circle  of  the  Ballingran  Parish  Church 
in  Ireland  to  the  circle  of  the  Trinity  Parish  Church  in  New  York. 

And  let  it  be  observed,  as  already  pointed  out  in  these  pages,  that  this  answer 
in  no  particular  conflicts  with  the  story  of  Barbara  Heck's  appeal  to  Embury 
that  he  should  open  his  cottage  for  public  preaching  services.  Nor  does  it  con- 
flict with  Thomas  Taylor's  statement  in  his  letter  to  Mr.  Wesley,  that  Embury 
had  recently  been  "roused  up  to  employ  his  talent  in  preaching  to  sinners." 
Nor  does  it  conflict  with  any  documentary  data  related  to  the  period  in  question, 
while  it  perfectly  agrees  with  all  the  known  circumstantial  facts. 

f  CONCLUSION 

The  Historic  Statement  in  the  Discipline  places  the  origin  of  the  John 
Street  Society  in  the  year  1766  and,  as  previously  observed,  the  historians 
generally  agree  that  it  was  in  the  month  of  October  of  that  year  the  event  occurred. 
In  naming  October,  the  historians  follow  the  data  afforded  by  the  Barbara  Heck 
story  and  also  a  statement  contained  in  a  letter  by  Thomas  Taylor,  addressed 
to  Mr.  Wesley  from  New  York,  April  11,  1768,  both  of  which  sources  of  informa- 
tion appear  to  point  to  October,  1766,  as  the  month  in  which  Embury  instituted 
public  preaching  in  his  cottage. 

But  the  contention  urged  in  the  foregoing  pages  is  that  the  same  Methodist 
Society,  consisting  of  the  same  persons,  which  is  represented  as  having  been 
organized  in  October,  1766,  had,  in  all  essential  features,  existed  in  New  York 
during  the  six  prior  years.  This  contention  is  based  upon  certain  documentary 
evidence  previously  cited;  upon  circumstantial  facts  previously  cited,  and  notably 
on  the  strength  of  the  consideration  that  the  personnel  of  the  society,  alleged  to 
have  been  organized  in  October,  1766,  consisted,  as  stated,  of  the  same  Methodist 
persons,  with  one  exception,  that  had  comprised  a  Methodist  Society  in  Ireland 
and  had  emigrated  together  to  New  York. 

And,  incidentally,  let  not  the  consideration  be  overlooked  that  these  were 
the  same  persons  of  whose  welfare  Mr.  Wesley  recorded  his  particular  interest 
and  to  whose  genuine  conversion  he  certified  in  his  Journal.  And,  as  evidencing 
their  continued  sense  of  their  spiritual  indebtedness  to  Mr.  Wesley  and  of  their 
loyalty  to  his  teachings,  it  was  written  in  the  Preamble  of  the  Chapel  Building  sub- 
scription paper,  seven  years  after  their  arrival  in  New  York,  that  they  were 
"under  the  direction  of  the  Rev.  John  Wesley." 

If  it  had  been  known  that  Embury  and  his  associates  had  for  a  time  fallen 
into  the  habits  of  an  irreligious  life,  would  they  have  dared  to  publicly  affirm 
in  the  Preamble  of  their  subscription  paper  that  they  were  "under  the  direction 
of  the  Rev.  John  Wesley"?  That  they  did  dare  to  so  affirm  not  only  emphatically 
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irreligious  lives,  but  most  emphatically  compells  the  inference  that  during  those 
six  years  they  had  been  known  as  worthy  examples  of  the  Methodist  profession. 

Why  should  this  group  of  twelve  persons  disband  their  Methodist  fellow- 
ship after  arriving  in  New  York?  From  the  view  point  of  their  domestic,  social 
and  religious  interests,  they  had  every  reason  for  continuing  that  fellowship. 

It  is  not  doubted  by  the  writer  of  these  pages  that  all  of  these  persons  had 
maintained  their  Methodist  integrity  and  fellowship  during  the  prior  six  years, 
though  it  is  not  necessary  that  it  be  proven  that  all  of  them  did.  To  sustain 
the  contention  here  made  it  is  sufficient  to  be  assured  that  two  of  the  twelve 
maintained  their  Methodist  integrity  and  fellowship  during  the  six  years  in 
question.  A  Methodist  Class  or  Society  may  consist  of  only  two  persons. 
The  Methodist  historians  agree  that  Jesse  Lee  introduces  Methodism  into  New 
England  by  the  organization  of  a  Class,  in  one  place  of  two  persons  and  in  another 
place  of  three  persons.  A  recognit  on  of  the  historic  beginning  of  Methodism 
in  many  places,  both  in  America  and  in  the  Old  World,  is  associated  with  a  like 
small  number.  Moreover,  if  it  be  true  that  Embury  and  his  associates  did  not 
increase  their  number  during  the  six  years  in  question,  this  does  not  discredit 
the  contention  here  made.  Many  Methodist  Societies  have  sustained  an  accred- 
ited existence  year  after  year  without  increasing  their  numbers. 

Nor  is  it  necessary  to  this  contention  that  it  should  be  proven  by  documen- 
tary data  that  Embury  engaged  in  public  preaching  during  the  prior  years  in 
question.  A  Methodist  Class  or  Society  may  maintain  an  accredited  existence 
through  any  number  of  years  without  the  co-operation  of  public  preaching  or 
preaching  of  any  sort.  Only  three  things  are  essential,  a  Class,  a  Leader,  and 
adherence  to  Methodist  teachings. 

A  standard  of  requirement  should  in  no  one  thing  be  applied  to  Embury 
and  his  associates  during  their  first  six  years  in  New  York  that  is  recognized  as 


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having  no  essential  application  to  other  Methodist  Classes  or  Societies  of  which 
history  makes  record. 

Accordingly,  and  based  upon  the  foregoing  recited  facts  and  considerations, 
the  inference  appears  compelling  and  conclusive  that  for  six  years  prior  to 
October,  1766,  the  John  Street  Methodist  Society  had  existed  within  the  circle 
of  Trinity  Church,  in  possession  of  all  the  essential  elements  of  unity  and  fellow- 
ship, that  had  bound  the  same  persons  together  for  six  years  as  a  Methodist 
Society  within  the  circle  of  the  Parish  Church  in  Ballingran,  Ireland. 

After  the  arrival  of  the  third  of  Mr.  Wesley's  itinerant  preachers  from  Eng- 
land (the  first  to  reach  New  York  being  Robert  Williams  in  September,  1769; 
the  second,  Richard  Boardman,  in  October  1769;  the  third,  Joseph  Pilmoor,  in 
March,  1770),  Embury,  and  the  others  of  his  original  Class  group  of  twelve  who 
had  not  previously  left,  migrated  to  Camden  Valley,  New  York.  Here  he 
became  a  magistrate  and,  meanwhile,  organized  several  Classes,  one  of  these 
becoming  later  known  as  the  Ashgrove  Society  which,  in  the  order  of  succession, 
survives  to-day  in  the  flourishing  Society  at  Cambridge,  New  York. 

An  expense  charge  recorded  in  the  "Old  Book"  for  the  purchase  of  a  copy  of 
Cruden's  Concordance  for  Embury,  is  understood  to  have  been  given  to  him  at 
the  time  of  his  leaving  New  York  as  a  testimonial  token  of  the  Society's  esteem 
and  affection.  This  precious  heirloom  is  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Western 
Theological  College  at  Montreal,  having  been  presented  to  that  institution  by 
one  of  Embury's  granddaughters. 

But  Embury's  activities  were  not  long  extended  in  the  region  of  his  new 
home.  Only  a  little  more  than  three  years  had  elapsed  when  he  quite  suddenly 
"fell  on  sleep,"  aged  45.  His  remains,  after  two  removals  from  one  burial  ground 
to  another,  rest  to-day  in  the  beautiful  Cambridge  Cemetery,  New  York,  by  the 
side  of  a  noble  monument  of  granite  erected  to  his  memory  by  the  National 
Local  Preachers  Association  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Close  by  the 
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FIRST  ELEVEN  PASTORS  AFTER  EMBURY  WERE  BACHELORS 

Embury  left  New  York  in  the  Spring  of  1770.  The  first  eleven  pastors 
that  succeeded  him  in  the  John  Street  pastorate  were  bachelors.  Their  com- 
bined services  covered  a  period  of  thirteen  years,  and  they  came  in  the  following 
order:  Robert  Williams;  Richard  Boardman;  Joseph  Pilmoor;  Francis  Asbury; 
Richard  Wright;  Thomas  Rankin;  George  Shadford;  James  Dempster;  Daniel 
Ruff;  John  Mann  and  Samuel  Spraggs.  The  little  Dutch  cottage,  which  stood 
partly  in  front  of  the  Chapel,  included  in  the  purchase  of  the  lots,  became  the 
Parsonage,  but  was  known  after  it  became  the  home  of  the  John  Street  pastors 
as  "The  Preacher's  House."  Its  basement  was  occupied  by  the  sexton  and  his 
wife,  and  it  was  made  their  duty  to  care  for  the  domestic  needs  of  the  bachelor 
pastors;  purchase  and  prepare  their  meals,  and  render  the  bill  of  cost  to  the 
trustees  who  fixed  the  pastor's  cash  allowance  accordingly. 

The  first  married  pastor  to  occupy  this  humble  -dwelling  was  John  Dickens, 
who  began  his  pastorate  at  John  Street  in  1783.  Among  the  other  famous  , 
pastors  who  dwelt  under  its  roof  were  Woolman  Hickson;  Henry  Willis;  Freeborn 
Garrettson;  William  Phoebus;  Thomas  Morrell;  Richard  Whatcoat  (later  elected 
bishop);  Ezekiel  Cooper;  Joshua  Wells;  Jesse  Lee;  Daniel  Ostrander;  Nicholas 
Snethen;  Samuel  Merwin;  Nathan  Bangs;  Laban  Clark  and  Phineas  Rice. 
Bishop  Coke  made  it  his  home  while  in  New  York.  Elijah  Crawford  was  born 
there  and  in  1846  was  stationed  at  John  Street.  There  is  a  tablet  to  his  memory 
in  the  present  church. 

THE  JOHN  STREET  "OLD  BOOK" 

Among  the  historic  possessions  of  the  John  Street  Society,  the  next  in  price- 
less value  to  the  Subscription  Paper,  an  imprint  of  which  appears  on  a  preceding 
page,  is  the  "Old  Book,"  which  contains  a  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  trustees 
from  the  building  of  the  Chapel  in  1768  to  1797,  a  period  of  twenty-nine  years. 
It  opens  with  an  account  of  Embury's  transactions  as  the  first  treasurer,  and 
records  with  astonishing  minuteness  dates  and  details  relating  to  occurrences 
and  doings  of  those  primitive  days.  It  records  the  price  paid  for  a  copy  of 
Cruden's  Concordance,  which  was  presented  to  Embury  as  a  farewell  gift; 
the  kind  and  cost  of  the  supplies  purchased  for  the  "Preacher's  House"  (Parson- 
age) ;  of  cash  payments  made  to  the  preacher,  including  payments  for  clothing 
for  the  preachers,  stationery,  postage  stamps,  medicines,  shaving  soap,  laundry, 
poll-tax,  medical  attendance,  horse-keep  and  many  other  items  relating  to  the 
preachers,  their  work,  and  the  up-keep  of  the  Chapel  and  the  Preacher's  House. 

Sometime  subsequent  to  the  last  entry  in  the  "Old  Book  '  which  was  made 
in  1797,  it  was  lost,  and  for  a  period  of  more  than  fifty  years  no  Methodist  histor- 


When  you  want  the  real  thing  in  sport  equipment, 
you  instantly  think  of  "Spalding." 


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(Neighbors  of  ''Old  John  Street  Church"  for  20  years) 

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ical  writer  of  that  period  seems  to  have  known  anything  of  it.  It  does  not  appear 
that  Jesse  Lee  who  published  in  1810  his  "History  of  the  Methodists"  ever  saw 
it.  In  1818,  Nathan  Bangs  published  his  account  of  the  first  years  of  the  John 
Street  Society,  but  at  a  later  period  said  he  had  never  seen  the  "Old  Book"  and 
knew  nothing  of  its  existence.  But  in  1856,  or  a  little  later,  this  precious  treasure 
came  to  light  and  great  joy  followed  its  discovery.  It  was  put  in  the  hands  of 
the  Rev.  L.  B.  Wakely  who  quickly  realized  its  great  value,  and  on  the  strength 
of  its  contents  he  straightway  began  writing  his  famous  book,  entitled,  "Lost 
Chapters  Recovered  From  the  Early  History  of  American  Methodism." 

Besides  the  many  interesting  sidelights  the  "Old  Book"  throws  upon  mater- 
ial affairs  and  social  life  of  the  John  Street  Church  and  Parsonage  of  that  early 
period  it  also  did  this.  In  conjunction  with  still  later  discovered  facts  it  furnished 
documentary  data  for  correcting  various  errors  made  by  the  early  Methodist 
historians.  One  error  consisting  of  the  representation  that  John  Street  had  no 
pastoral  service  during  the  period  of  the  Revolution;  another  error  relating  to 
the  identity  of  Paul  and  Barbara  Heck  and  the  date  of  their  arrival  in  New  York; 
and  another  error  involving  the  Godly  reputation  of  Embury  and  the  relative 
measure  of  services  he  rendered  in  the  building  of  the  first  John  Street  Church 
edifice. 

DURING  THE  REVOLUTION,  1777-1782 

The  history  of  John  Street  during  the  Revolution  is  fascinatingly  unique. 
During  this  period  all  the  other  Church  edifices  of  the  city,  excepting  Trinity 
Church,  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  St.  George's  and  the  Methodist  Chapel,  were 
requisitioned  for  military  purposes.  The  Middle  Dutch  Church  edifice  was  used 
as  a  prison  and  later  as  a  cavalry  riding  school;  the  two  Presbyterian  Church 
edifices  were  occupied  by  the  military;  the  Baptist  Church  was  turned  into  a 
stable,  the  French  Church  into  a  jail,  and  the  Quaker  Meeting  House  into  a 
hospital.  But  the  John  Street  Chapel  was  spared  desecration  of  any  kind.  On 
Sunday  mornings  it  was  used  as  a  place  of  worship  for  the  Hessian  soldiers,  and 
on  Sunday  evenings  and  during  the  week-days  it  was  uninterruptedly  used  for 
Methodist  services.  During  this  period  Asbury,  the  superintendent  of  the 
Methodist  Societies,  was  in  hiding  in  Maryland  and  made  no  appointments  to 
John  Street,  which  fact  is  shown  by  the  General  Minutes.  But  the  records  of 
the  "Old  Book"  show  that  during  this  period  the  John  Street  Trustees  engaged 
the  pastoral  services  of  John  Mann  and  Samuel  Spraggs,  and  that  no  break 
occurred  in  the  continuity  of  the  Society's  Services. 

It  is  also  on  record  that  during  this  period  the  members  of  John  Street  and 
their  friends  entrusted  some  of  their  valuable  belongings  to  the  care  of  the  sexton 
who  hid  them  among  the  coffins  of  the  dead  that  were  buried  beneath  the  Chapel. 
The  exemption  from  desecration  which  was  granted  John  Street  Chapel  by  the 
military,  doubtless,  has  its  explanation  in  the  prevalent  understanding  that  the 
Methodists  were  communicants  of  the  Church  of  England — Trinity  Church — 
and  that  their  Chapel  represented  a  form  of  Home  Missionary  work  under  the 
auspices  of  Trinity  Church. 


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Foundry  Chapel  is  the  name  given  to  the  building  in  which  Methodism 
may  be  said  to  have  had  its  organized  beginning  in  England  in  connection  with 
the  preaching  by  Mr.  Wesley  of  his  first  sermon  in  this  building,  November  11, 
1739.  The  same  building  was  Mr.  Wesley's  chief  place  of  preaching  in  London 
and  also  his  administrative  headquarters  for  a  period  of  forty  years,  when  a 
transfer  was  made  to  the  new  and  commodious  City  Road  Chapel.  It  con- 
tained a  dwelling-house,  dispensary,  book-room  and  school.  On  August  8, 
1779,  Mr.  Wesley  made  the  following  entry  in  his  Journal:  4 'This  was  the 
last  night  which  I  spent  at  the  Foundry.  What  hath  God  wrought  there  in 
forty  years!"  Both  at  the  Foundry,  and  later  at  City  Road  Chapel,  it  was 
the  custom  for  Mr.  Wesley  to  frequently  preach  as  early  as  five  o'clock  in  the 
morning. 


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It  has  been  said  of  City  Road  Chapel  that  it  is  "the  most  sacred  edifice 
in  the  Methodist  World."  To  pay  for  its  erection  Mr.  Wesley  collected  sub- 
scriptions all  over  England.  It  was  opened  November  1,  1778,  and  was  fully 
occupied  the  following  year.  It  also  had  a  dwelling-house  attached,  and  in 
other  respects  served  the  same  purpose  as  the  Foundry  Chapel.  Concerning 
it  Mr.  Wesley  wrote,  "It  is  perfectly  neat  but  not  fine,  and  contains  far  more 
people  than  the  Foundry."  Here  Mr.  Wesley  continued  to  administer  the 
affairs  of  the  United  Societies  and  to  preach,  when  in  London  until  he  died 
in  1791.  In  the  front  of  the  Chapel  a  monument  has  since  been  erected  to  his 
memory.  In  the  rear  of  the  Chapel  there  is  a  graveyard  where  Mr.  Wesley  is 
buried,  and  which  contains  the  dust  of  a  goodly  number  of  the  most  conspicuous 
of  his  associate  preachers. 


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capacity  of  2,600,  a  Library,  a  Conference  Room,  and  a  Basement  Hall,  the 
latter  having  a  seating  capacity  of  1,500.  Its  entire  cost  was  $1,250,000.  It  is 
situated  near  the  Houses  of  Parliament  and  Westminster  Abbey. 


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Kindred  Goods 

113  Nassau  Street,  New  York 


American  Oriental 
Restaurant 

23  JOHN  STREET 
(One  Flight  Up) 

Reasonable  Prices 
Prompt  Service 

Special  Dishes  Every  Day 
Telephone  3538  John 

Henry  Kirschbaum 

Architectural  and  Ornamental 

CHURCH  WORK 

Bronze,  Brass,  Scroll,  Grill 

Repairing  and  Refinishing  a  Specialty 
88  John  Street 


M.  ROSENFELD 

general  photographer 

116  Nassau  Street, 
New  York 


JOHN'T^ARSON 

Engraving,  Embossing, 
Stamping 
Paneling,  Printing 

462  John  Street 
NEW  YORK 

TEL.  60  JOHN 


Phone 
Cortlandt  3201 


Phone 
Circle  2149 


COBB  BROTHERS 
PLUMBERS 
176  GREENWICH  STREET 

NEAR  CORTLANDT  STREET 

798  SEVENTH  AVENUE 
cor.  52nd  street 
NEW  YORK 


N.    STAFFORD  COMPANY 

Established  Half  a  Century 

Badges,  Checks  and  Stencils 
/    Name  and  Number  Plates 
yHIGH    GRADE   METAL  SIGNS 
AND  TABLETS 

67  FULTON  STREET. 

Telephone  647  Beekman 

Telephone,  John  5689 

Architectural  Cabinet  Work 
Office  Partitions 

J.  NELSON 
Desks  and  Office  Furniture 

Repairing  in  All  Its  Branches 

Upholstering,  Caning  and  Varnishing 
a  Specialty 

122  WILLIAM  STREET 


Beekman  3284 
T.  S.  SMITH 

manufacturer  of 

Wire  Cloth— Wire  Work- 
Wire  Goods 

Office  Railings,  Riddles  and  Sieves, 
Poultry    Netting,    Poultry  Fencing, 
Window  Guards,   Window  Screens, 
Coal  Screens,  Sand  Screens 

269  PEARL  STREET 


60  YEARS  IN  BUSINESS 


ESTABLISHED  1857 


SURE  tmraardke  POP 

SURE  EXTERMINATOR 


When  Everything  Else  Fails,  try  "SURE  POP."  Clears  out  and  kills  rats,  mice, 
roaches,  bedbugs,  fleas  and  all  vermin.  Our  SURE  POP  BEDBUG  LIQUID  CAN'T 
BURN;  not  poison.  CAUTION— Beware  of  worthless  imitations.  Look  for  trade  mark 
(SURE  POP).  None  others  genuine.  All  our  goods  guaranteed  as  represented  or  money 
refunded.  Sizes:  25c,  50c,  75c,  $1,  $1.50.  Sold  by  dealers  or  sent  prepaid  on  receipt 
of  price.     Prompt  attention  given  phone  orders.     Phone  3803  John. 

CONTRACTS  taken  for  clearing  houses,  residences,  hotels  and  ships  of  RATS,  mice, 
roaches,  BEDBUGS.  Ants,  Eleas,  Moths,  etc.  TRAINED  FERRETS.  Adolph  Isaacson 
&  Son,  74  FULTON  ST.,  N.  Y.    OUR  ONLY  STORE. 


PUNCTUAL  TOWEL  SUPPLY 

INDIVIDUAL       ¥  A  1111*1  ft  PROMPT 
TOWELS  lint  I  ml  EFFICIENT 

A  SPECIALTY       ■  W       fcfcW  SERVICE 

Tel.  Cortlandt  797  142  Fulton  Street,  N.  Y. 


DR.  EMANUEL  M.  KAPLAN 


Surgeon  Dentist 


9  A.  M. — 6  P.  M. 


136  LIBERTY  STREET 


NEW  YORK 


"GLOBE" 


METAL 
POLISH 


"The  National  Shine" 

Thoroughly  Polishes  and  Cleans  Brass,  Copper, 
Nickel,  Aluminum,  Etc. 

A  LITTLE  RUB— A  BIG  SHINE 

RAIMES  &  CO. 

50  Ferry  Street  New  York 


TITLE  GUARANTEE  AND  TRUST 
COMPANY 

Capital  and  Surplus,  $16,000,000.00 

The  Depositor's  Best  Guarantee  is  a  Capital  and  Surplus  Large  in 
Proportion  to  Deposits,  Coupled  with  Conservative  Management. 

BANKING  COMMITTEE 

EDWARD  T.  BEDFORD  WILLIAM  H.  NICHOLS 

EDGAR  L.  MARSTON  WILLIAM  H.  PORTER 

WILLIAM  A.  NASH  CLARENCE  H.  KELSEY 

J.  H.  McCLEMENT  FRANK  BAILEY 

JAMES  SPEYER  EDWARD  O.  STANLEY 

176  BROADWAY,  MANHATTAN 

196  Montague  St.,  Connecting  with  175  Remsen  St.,  Brooklyn 
350  Fulton  St.,  Jamaica,  L.  I.;  67  Jackson  Ave.,  L.  I.  C. 


THE  LONG  ISLAND  SAFE  DEPOSIT 
COMPANY 

The  Oldest  Safe  Deposit  Company  in  Brooklyn 
with  the  Most  Modem  Vaults 

BOXES  FROM  $5.00  PER  ANNUM  UP 
STORAGE  FOR  VALUABLES  AT  REASONABLE  RATES 

OFFICERS 

FRANK  L.  SNIFFEN,  President  FRANK  BAILEY,  Vice-President 

JOHN  F.  TALMAGE,  Secretary 


196  MONTAGUE  STREET,  BROOKLYN,  NEW  YORK  CITY 
Telephone  6000  Main 


PENS  FOR  EVERY  STYLE  OF  WRITING 
ASK  FOR 

ESTERBROOK'S 

99  John  Street,  New  York 


S.  APPEL  and  CO. 


Yacht  Outfitters  and  Uniform  Contractors 


18  FULTON  STREET 

COR.  FRONT  STREET 


UNIFORMS    FOR    YACHTS,  (  332  1 

STEAMSHIPS,  RAILROADS,  HO-  TELEPHONES:  -<  3  3  22  JOHN 
TELS,  OFFICE  BUILDINGS,  Etc.  (  4096 


NEW  YORK 


DR.  NELSON  YOUNG  HULL 

OPTOMETRIST 


198  BROADWAY 


NEW  YORK 


Phone  5705  Cortlandt 


H.  LESSER 

BEST  WISHES 

ENVELOPES 
TYPEWRITER  PAPERS 

JOHN  P.  FLOAN 

13  BEEKMAN  ST. 

A  Specialty  of  Cream  in  Individual  Bricks  for 
Churches,  Receptions,  Etc. 

THE  REID  ICE  CREAM  CO. 

The  Purest  and  Most  Wholesome  Made 
WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL 
To  Any  Part  of  City  or  Country 
Main  Office,  32  and  34  NEW  CHAMBERS  STREET 
Telephone,  5562  Beekman  NEW  YORK 


0  C  UL  IS  TS—  O  P  Tl  CIA  NS 

PEERLESS  OPTICAL 
COMPANY 

34  MAIDEN  LANE 

PHOTO  SUPPLIES 


Cleaning  Repairin 


Pressing 

and  Delivered 


Clothing:  Called  Fo 

HUDSON  VALET 

Dress  Suits  to  Hire 
HUDSON  TERMINAL, 
Main  Floor     50  CHURCH  ST 
Telephone  4659  Cortlandt 
Wm.  Ruediger 


BRADLEY  &  SMITH  BRUSHES 


The  New  York  Business  Directory  for  1860,  Under  the 
Heading  "Brush  Manufacturers,"  Gave  the  Address  of 
BRADLEY  &  SMITH,  251  Pearl  St.  T  row's  Directory 
for  1916  Shows  Bradley  &  Smith  at  the  Same  Location. 


58  Cortlandt  Street 
102  Nassau  Street  , 
240  Fifth  Avenue 
6  Astor  House 
50  Broadway 


CHAS.  W.  WOLF 


TRUNKS,  BAGS  AND  LEATHER  GOODS 


main  store 
22  Cortlandt  Street 


Established  1863 


ELWARD  SMITH  &  CO. 


WM.  F.  BIRMINGHAM,  Prop. 
Established  1860 


CARPENTERS,  BUILDERS  and  GENERAL  CONTRACTORS 


57  Ann  Street,  New  York 
Telephone  2060  Beekman 


Fire  Insurance  Repairs  and  Estimates  a  Specialty,  Offices  and  Stores  Fitted  Up 


General  Jobbing  Promptly  Attended  To 


Phone  2148  Cortlandt 


NEW  YORK 


Established  1875 


GORDON,  ROBERTS  &  CO. 

Advisers  and  Brokers  in 
INSURANCE 

56-58  Pine  Street 
NEW  YORK 


Papers   of  Quality" 

John  F.  Sarle  Co. 

Incorporated 

85   John   Street,   New  York 


Telephone  3265  John 


ALFRED  F.  SINSHEIMER 

Publishing  and  Commercial  Printing 
Engraving,  Lithographing 


84  John  Street,  New  York 


Telephone  2000  John  Established  18  Years 

CHARLES  F.  NOYES  COMPANY 

REAL  ESTATE 

INCREASE:    MAY  1st,  1916,  as  Compared  with  MAY  1st,  1909 

In  number  of  owners  -  390.62% 

In  number  of  properties        -----  437.25% 

In  number  of  tenants  -  -         -         -  927.81% 

In  amounts  of  rents    ------  755.53% 

92  William  Street,  New  York 


Telephone,  143  John 

DANIEL  WINANT 

CITY  DRESSED  BEEF  AND  PROVISIONS 
178  FRONT  STREET 


THE  MARKET  AND 
FULTON  NATIONAL 
BANK  OF  NEW  YORK 

Organized  1852 

Capital  and  Surplus 

$3,000,000 

RESOURCES  OVER  FOURTEEN  MILLION  DOLLARS 


81  FULTON  STREET 

ALEXANDER  GILBERT,  President 
ROBERT  A.  PARKER,  Vice-President 
WILLIAM  M.  ROSENDALE,  Cashier 


A  Sixty-Year-Old  Bank 

C'OR  more  than  two  generations  this  institu- 
*  tion  has  had  a  steady,  conservative,  profit- 
able growth,  enjoying  to  the  fullest  extent  the 
confidence  and  good  will  of  the  business  com- 
munity. Its  reputation,  resources  and  facilities 
are  at  your  service. 


